§ Mr. Tom Coxasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of families currently in receipt of state benefit in the London borough of Wandsworth.
§ Dr. BoysonStatistics on supplementary benefit claimants do not distinguish between families and single people. Seven local offices serve the London borough of Wandsworth but their boundaries are not coterminous with those of the borough. The numbers of supplementary benefit cases being handled, in May 1984, in these offices were as follows:
(thousands) Local Office Pensioners Unemployed claimants Others Wandsworth 3.3 3.2 2.3 Balham 3.6 5.5 3.0 Battersea 3.3 6.2 3.8 Kennington 1.8 4.8 3.0 Streatham 2.7 3.4 2.1 Wimbledon 2.9 2.6 1.8 Kingston upon Thames 4.1 3.1 1.7