HC Deb 21 February 1990 vol 167 c774W
Mr. Hume

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information is available to indicate the number and cost of student claims for housing benefit, unemployment benefit and income support/ supplementary benefit in the past five years.

Mr. Needham

The information is available only for income support, and is as follows:

Summer vacation (1989)
Number of claims Amount paid £ million
12,720 2.15

Note:—Excludes claims from lone parent and disabled students.

Source: 20 per cent. sample.