HC Deb 26 January 1989 vol 145 cc708-11W
Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) what load of current cases the Greenock and Port Glasgow offices of his Department have carried in the past nine months;

(2) what was the average number of new claims and cases since 11 April 1988 awaiting review at the local offices of his Department of Greenock and Port Glasgow which were recorded as outstanding each month; and how many were concerned with: (a) supplementary benefit claims and (b) single payment claims.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The information available is set out in the tables.

Month ending 30 April 1988 31 May 1988 50 June 1988 31 July 1988 31 August 1988 30 September 1988 31 October 1988 30 November 1988 31 December 1988
GREENOCK
Income Support
Live Load — 11,344 — — 11,577 — — 11,423 —
Claims outstanding 28 31 56 44 36 85 45 78 128
Assessment Reviews outstanding 250 122 69 83 58 112 119 147 237
Supplementary Benefit Work outstanding
Claims 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Single payments 2,930 1,057 270 17 0 0 0 0 0
PORT GLASGOW
Income Support
Live Load — 4,847 — — 4,783 — — 4,659 —
Claims outstanding 26 23 37 23 40 55 31 60 50
Assessment Reviews outstanding 448 262 104 196 208 137 134 70 141
Supplementary Benefit Work outstanding
Claims 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Single payments 2,552 971 24 0 0 0 0 1 2

Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give for the Greenock and Port Glasgow offices of his Department, the current staffing complement, broken down by staffing grades of(a) how many permanent staff are currently in post, (b) how many temporary staff are currently in post, (c) how many members of staff are currently being trained and (d) the annual turnover of permanent staff.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The information requested is as follows:

Greenock integrated local office Port Glasgow integrated local office
Permanent staff
Grade 7 1.0 0.0
SEO 1.0 1.0
HEO 6.0 3.5
LO1 33.5 20.5
LO2 76.0 34.0
AA 22.0 7.5
Typing manager 0.0 0.0
Typist 3.0 1.0
Security guard 0.0 0.0
Messenger 2.0 1.0
Telephones 0.0 0.0
144.5 68.5
Temporary staff 12.0 214.0
219.0
Total staff 165.5 82.5
per cent. per cent.
Annual turnover 311.90 39.09
46.85 415.71
215.79 211.11
1 AO grade.
2 AA grade.
3 LO1 grade.
4 LO11 grade.

The source of the live load figures is the 100 per cent, count of cases in action and is available only on a quarterly basis. The figures given include a small number of cases not actually in receipt of benefit.

There are no staff under tutelage in either office.

Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many social fund applications were made each month since 11 April 1988 at the Greenock and Port Glasgow offices of his Department for(a) budget loans, (b) crisis loans and (c) community care grants; and how many of these applications in each of these categories were successful each month.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Such information is available in the Library.

Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how many new claims for income support were made each month since 11 April 1988 at the local offices of his Department in(a) Greenock and Port Glasgow, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland as a whole; and how many of these claims were determined each month;

(2) how many people are in receipt of income support in (a) Greenock and Port Glasgow, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland as a whole; and what are the corresponding figures for those in receipt of supplementary benefit for each year since 1979.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Strathclyde region is served by the following local offices of the Department, although their boundaries are not coterminous:

  1. Airdrie
  2. Clydebank
  3. East Kenbridge
  4. Hamilton
  5. Mother well
  6. Ayr
  7. Coat bridge
  8. Glasgow (13 offices)
  9. Irvine
  10. Oman
  11. Bell shill
  12. Cumber auld
  13. Johnston
  14. Paisley
    15. 711
  15. Campbeltown
  16. Dumbarton
  17. Greenock

Income support claims made (a) and determined (b):
Greenock Port Glasgow Strathclyde Scotland
(a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b)
April 1988 354 326 208 182 10,543 7,764 21,182 14,946
May 1988 663 660 291 294 16,960 17,037 34,182 34,484
June 1988 1,010 985 434 420 25,383 23,975 47,862 45,779
July 1988 865 877 361 375 23,739 24,494 48,169 48,734
August 1988 805 813 370 353 21,669 22,117 42,222 43,653
September 1988 1,070 1,021 518 503 22,080 21,220 42,835 41,643
October 1988 700 740 239 263 20,114 21,032 39,229 40,234
November 1988 804 771 312 283 18,421 18,608 36,997 37,358
December 1988 664 614 283 293 14,525 14,090 29,592 28,620

(Where the numbers processed exceed the intake, this indicates clearance of claims from earlier periods.)

Income support/supplementary benefit live load:
Greenock Port Glasgow Strathclyde Scotland
1979 6,317 2,814 166,426 294,116
1980 6,794 3,069 183,629 320,260
1981 7,999 3,704 221,403 385,238
1982 9,812 4,156 252,679 439,419
1983 9,720 4,128 265,180 461,461
1984 10,381 4,541 283,600 492,775
1985 10,705 4,990 295,392 508,970
1986 12,195 5,285 309,578 543,025
1987 12,338 5,369 315,735 548,272
1988 11,423 4,659 284,381 499,890

All information has been collated from internal management statistics and that for April 1988 and later is provisional and subject to amendment.

Back to