§ Mr. CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the 1989–90 social fund allocation for each London local office and the monthly rate of expenditure for(a) grants, (b) loans and (c) community care groups; what additional resources he has made available to each office; and what are his projections for 1990–91.
§ Mr. ScottDetails of social fund allocations to local offices together with details of their monthly expenditure on grants and loans are available in the Library. Information on expenditure in relation to client groups for all London local offices can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Additional social fund loan allocations for 1989–90 have been made from the contingency reserve to five local offices in London to take account of the unforeseen additional expenditure arising from the arrival of Kurdish refugees in the areas covered by those offices. The revised annual loan allocations are as follows:
Revised allocation £ Amount of increase £ Highgate 419,845 28,226 Shoreditch 352,401 9,867 Stoke Newington 325,467 16,791 Tottenham 534,260 93,881 Wood Green 220,424 18,991 An announcement on the local office allocations for 1990–91 will be made nearer the time.