HC Deb 25 May 1988 vol 134 cc214-5W
Mr. Fraser

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many applications for single payments, additional requirement claims and supplementary benefit claims, made before 11 April are outstanding at his Department's offices serving the London borough of Lambeth.

Mr. Portillo

Information on outstanding additional requirement claims is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The number of outstanding single payments and supplementary benefit claims in each of the 10 local offices serving the London borough of Lambeth is given in the table. The boundaries of these offices are not conterminous with those of the borough.

Single payment and supplementary benefit claims outstanding at 29 April 1988
Office Single payments claims Supplementary benefits claims
Balham 544 83
Battersea 99 141
Brixton 497 266
Camberwell 303 161
Crystal Palace 507 491
Kennington Park 814 119

Office Single payments claims Supplementary benefits claims
Oval 3,835 220
Peckham 173 203
Southwark 168 166
Streatham 236 421