§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to the reply to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe on 5 May on the link between heating allowance and attendance and mobility allowances, what would be the cost of providing the information; and if he will explain how the figure is calculated.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinA snapshot picture of recipients of these benefits within a week in December 1980 could be obtained but only by a special computer run on raw data which will be available in about two months' time. The estimated cost would be £84, comprising:
£ Specifying the job for programming 7 Programming 45 Computer processing 30 Other costs 2 84
§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to the reply to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe on 5 May on the reasons why individuals have been granted heating allowance, if he will now take steps to ensure that records are kept so that the conditions are separately identified in order that statistics may in future be available.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinI have at present no plans to do so.