Mr. Bob Brownasked the Minister of Social Security if she will state the number of persons per 1,000 of the population of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Northern Region in receipt of supplementary benefits, with comparisons for the South-East of England, the rest of England, England and Wales, England, Wales and Scotland, and the whole country, respectively.
§ Mr. PentlandThe number of persons receiving regular weekly payments of Supplementary Benefits in the Northern Region in December 1967 was 212,000; the numbers in England. Wales and Scotland were 2,128,000, 178,000 and 271,000, and in South-East England 698,000. The total of 2,577,000 recipients in Great Britain, with their dependent wives and children, represented about 3.5 million people or about 70 per 1,000 of the population. I regret that insufficient information is available to enable comparable ratios to be calculated for Scotland, Wales, England or parts of England.