§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what action he intends to take, in relation 600W to the decision of the Social Security Commissioners, reference CSB/930/1985, other than his response to applications for review from individual claimants, in relation to (a) supplementary benefit claimants who applied for exceptionally severe weather single payments during last winter but who were refused on the basis of the instructions from the chief adjudication officer then in force, (b) the 170,000 claimants who, according to his reply of 22 October 1985 to the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East, Official Report, column 132, received payments which should now be recalculated and (c) claimants who made no claim for a single payment because they were aware of the instructions set out in the chief adjudication officer's guidance.
§ Mr. NewtonI refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) on 6 December at column394. The chief adjudication officer's guidance covers both review of decisions made last year and cases where no claim was made at the time.