§ Mr. Parkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide figures for the number of people in Coventry dependent on social security benefits, broken down by category of benefit and age group.
§ Mr. LyellInformation is not available for centrally paid benefits, for example, retirement pension, about the number of beneficiaries in any particular locality nor, generally, about the beneficiaries' age groups.
The Coventry area is covered by two local offices of the Department, Coventry East and Coventry West, and the latest available information about recipients of various locally administered benefits is as follows:
Coventry East Coventry West Sickness and Invalidity Benefit 3,393 2,886 Maternity Allowance 292 390 Severe Disablement Allowance (all above figures as at 13.1.87) 543 534 Supplementary Benefit (as at 16.12.86) (a) beneficiaries over pension age 5,521 5,730 (b) beneficiaries under pension age and required to sign at the Unemployment Benefit Office 10,304 7,565 (c) other beneficiaries under pension age 6,673 5,046 Housing benefit is administered by the local authority and the numbers of recipients in Coventry at 31.3.86 (the latest date for which information is available) were as follows:
Number Rent Rebate recipients 18,504 Rent Allowance recipients 8,414 Rate Rebate recipients 154,113 1 Includes local authority tenants who also receive a rent rebate and private tenants who also receive a rent allowance.