HC Deb 30 January 1989 vol 146 cc71-2W
Mr. Marlow

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the estimated average annual benefit cost and total eventual benefit cost of (a) each AIDS patient from the time of being identified as HIV positive and (b) each drug addict seeking treatment.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The Department does not collect statistical information about benefit claims by AIDS patients and drug addicts. It is therefore not possible to make such estimates.

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