Unemployment Benefit

HC Deb 28 April 1994 vol 242 cc281-2W

Mrs. Fyfe

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what amount was spent on unemployment benefit claims in Scotland in the latest 12 months for which he has information.

Mr. Burt

Information on benefit expenditure in Scotland is not maintained separately. For the year 1992–93 it is estimated that the proportion of Great Britain expenditure on unemployment benefit in Scotland was £157 million.