HC Deb 22 October 1990 vol 178 c77W
Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many families in(a) Greenock and Port Glasgow, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland as a whole are presently in receipt of family credit; and what percentages these are of those families estimated to be eligible for such support.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

The latest available information is as follows:

Number
(a) Greenock and Port Glasgow 1934
(b) Strathclyde 115,828
(c) Scotland 239,000

Notes:

1 Number of awards actually in payment on 21 September 1990, ie excludes awards on claims made before that date but not decided at that stage.

2 Provisional caseload at end of July 1990, ie including backdated awards. Information on this more comprehensive basis is only available for Scotland as a whole.

Information about the total number of families eligible for family credit can be obtained only for Great Britain as a whole, and only retrospectively, from Family Expenditure Survey data.