§ 15. Mr. Robert C. Brownasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of families being supported by state benefits in the area covered by the Newcastle upon Tyne, North constituency.
§ Mr. NewtonThe only information available relates to supplementary benefit and unemployment benefit. The number of claims in action in the supplementary benefit office situated in the hon. Member's constituency at February 1983—the latest available date—was 15,200. In addition 2,500 people were receiving unemployment benefit only—without supplementary benefit—from the Newcastle upon Tyne (City) unemployment benefit office.