§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide his latest available figure for the numbers of people claiming social security benefits for each Department of Health and Social Security office in Scotland.
§ Mr. Lyell[pursuant to his reply, 13 May 1987]: The following table shows the numbers of people claiming locally-administered social security benefits at the latest available date. Information about the centrally paid social security benefits, eg retirement pension, is not available on an office-by-office basis
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Local Office 1Sickness/ Invalidity Benefit 1Maternity Allowance 1Severe Disablement Allowance 2Industrial Disablement Benefit 3Supplementary Benefit Perth ILO 1,810 362 592 450 9,125 Peterhead ILO 1,044 182 268 318 4,478 Port Glasgow ILO 1,666 86 256 526 5,385 Shotts NIO 1,502 29 193 276 — Stirling ILO 3,952 296 604 1,093 11,027 Stornoway ILO 675 54 203 123 4,652 Stranraer ILO 824 63 149 92 3,129 Wick ILO 884 166 240 169 4,488 Wishaw NIO 4,339 122 425 504 — Abbreviations: ILO = Integrated Local Office. AO = Area Office NIO = National Insurance Office 1As at 7 April 1987 2Figures quoted show the numbers of current awards of disablement benefit at local offices on 10 February 1987. More than one award may be in payment to an individual beneficiary at any one time. 3 As at 10 February 1987. Source: 100 per cent. count of cases in action.