§ Dr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list in theOfficial Report the number of applicants, in each of the Scottish local authority housing areas, who have received payments from the transitional payments unit, Glasgow; and what is the average weekly payment which is to be made to those applicants.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe information requested could be obtained only by a special computer run which would be very lengthy and would divert machine resources from the top priority task of processing payments. In any event the data change daily and at this stage would not provide a comprehensive picture. In due course, once the majority of payments have been made, we will publish national figures showing a breakdown of the numbers of payments made to people in each local authority area.