§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish in theOfficial Report the final expenditure for each local social fund office for the year 1988–89, separately for loans and grants expressed as a proportion of the total annual allocation made to each office.
§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish in theOfficial Report the names of offices given extra allocations for social fund loans or grants from 1 January to the present and the value of those allocations.
§ Mr. ScottWe shall place a full list of the additional allocations in the Library after the end of the current financial year. Mr. Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) what proportion of successful applicants to the social fund had support for their application from(a) hon. Members, (b) social workers, (c) welfare rights workers and (d) voluntary groups both (i) initially and (ii) after request for review for (1) community care grants, (2) budgeting loans and (3) crisis loans;
(2) what proportion of unsuccessful applicants to the social fund had support for their application from (a) hon. Members, (b) social workers, (c) welfare rights workers and (d) voluntary groups both (i) initially and (ii) after request for review for (1) community care grants, (2) budgeting loans and (3) crisis loans.
§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the number of people in(a) Scotland, (b) Dunfermline, (c) Cowdenbeath, (d) Leven and (e) Kirkcaldy receiving income support in November 1989; and what is his estimate of the number of dependents of each of these at the same date.
§ Mr. Scott[holding answer 26 March 1990]: Data on the number of dependants are unavailable and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Data on the number of claimants of income support are in the table.
Number of income support claimants Area Number Scotland 506,853 Dunfermline 5,718 Cowdenbeath 4,407 Leven 5,114 Kirkcaldy 11,052 Source: 100 per cent. count of cases in action which include a number where payment has ceased but other action is continuing. Data are provisional and subject to amendment.