HC Deb 30 October 1992 vol 212 cc922-5W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the number of maternity grants paid during 1991 in each local authority area.

Mr. Scott

The information is not collected in the form requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost; but the numbers of maternity payments made by each Benefits Agency district office last year are in the table.

District Payments
Bankside 900
Barking and Havering 1,132
Barnet 794
Barnsley 997
Bedfordshire 1,700
Berkshire 1,750
Birmingham Chamberlain 1,689
Birmingham Heartlands 1,569
Birmingham North West 1,602
Birmingham South East 1,348
Birmingham South West 1,430
Blackburn and Accrington 1,567
Blackpool 1,083
Bolton 1,668
Bradford 2,627
Bristol, Severnside 1,560
Brunel 1,305
Buckinghamshire 1,635
Burnley/Pendle/Rossendale 1,297
Cambridgeshire 1,676
Canterbury and Thanet 980
Central Derbyshire 1,216
Channel 942
Cheshire East 892
Cheshire North West and Central 1,742
City East 1,402
Clyde Coast and Cowal 581
Coatbridge 712
Cornwall 1,573
Coventry 1,645
Cumbria North 968
Cynon Merthyhr Rhymnney Valley 1,463
Derbyshire North 731
Derbyshire South 1,169
Doncaster 1,362
Dorset 1,563
Durham North 1,640
Durham South 1,319
East Lowlands 1,322
East Sussex 1,014
Essex South East 1,078
Essex South West 1,648
Euston 2,180
Exeter and North Devon 1,204
Fife 1,232
Forth Valley 1,011
Fulham 2,091
Glamorgan South 2,160
Glasgow South West 912
Glasgow Anniesland 615
Glasgow City 562
Glasgow Laurieston 1,192
Gloucester 1,422
Grampian and Shetland 893
Gwent North and Brecon 1,057
Gwyneddigion 1,012
Hackney and Islington 2,055
Halifax 1,468
Hampshire North 1,238
Harrow and Hillingdon 912
Hereford and Worcester 1,553
Highlands and Islands 1,013
Hordan House, Wirral 1,910
Hounslow and Kingston 1,268
Hull East 2,383
Irvine 1,015
Kent North 2,049
Kirklees 1,782
Knowsley 1,536
Lancaster 1,021
Lea-Roding 1,862
Leaside 1,977
Leeds North 1,291
Leeds South 1,895
Leicester South 1,687
Leicestershire North 1,316
Lewisham and Brixton 1,873
Lincolnshire East 1,172
District Payments
Liverpool Central 889
Liverpool North 1,170
Liverpool South 1,338
Lomond and Argyll 635
London Central 295
London Ealing 1,727
London Newham 1,862
Lothian Central 717
Lothian West 1,017
Manchester Central 1,338
Manchester North 801
Mid Wales and Maelor 906
Motherwell 1,051
Neasden 1,270
Newcastle upon Tyne 1,825
North and East Herts 905
North Essex 1,231
North Staffs 1,0927
North Tees 1,544
North Tyneside 717
North Wales Coast 1,134
North Yorkshire 1,075
Northamptonshire 1,854
Northumberland 907
Norwich 1,495
Nottinghamshire East 1,376
Nottinghamshire North 1,776
Nottinghamshire West 1,673
Ogwr Afan Nedd 1,086
Oldham 1,797
Oxfordshire 1,222
Paisley 853
Preston 1,449
Rotherham South 1,809
South East Hampshire and Wight 1,860
Salford 1,236
Sandwell 1,818
Sefton 1,346
Sheffield East 1,504
Sheffield West 1,106
Shettleston 1,204
Shropshire 1,458
Solent and Forest 1,836
Somerset 1,269
South Cheshire 1,702
South Devon 2,171
South Downs 1,025
South Gwent and Islwyn 1,205
South Humberside 1,588
South Manchester 1,724
South Tees 1,953
South West Lancashire 1,469
South West Thames 1,631
Springburn 989
Staffordshire Central 1,278
Stockport 991
Suffolk 1,442
Surrey Downs 1,060
Surrey North 1,785
South West Scotland 1,099
Swansea 1,184
Taff Rhondda 796
Tameside 1,092
Tayside 1,470
Thameside 1,638
Tyneside South 1,733
Wakefield 1,535
Wales West 1,139
Walsall 1,536
Warwickshire 1,193
Wearside 2,032
West Hertfordshire 872
West Kent 1,156
West Lincolnshire 1,329
West Pennine 1,879
West Sussex 1,463
Wigan and Leigh 1,310
Wiltshire 1,556
District Payments
Wolverhampton 1,709
Worcestershire North 1,536
Yorkshire East 850

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