§ Mr. John Pageasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the numbers of persons involved, period, with dates, amount paid out and cost of paying out of supplementary benefit to the families of strikers at the Standard?
Organisation Period Number of payments of dependants of strikers Cost (Rounded to £100) £ Standard-Triumph (Liverpool) Began August, 1969 3,800 (to date) 27,600 (to date) Rover (Cardiff) (1) February-March, 1969 300 1,900 (2) September-October, 1969 Vauxhalls (Ellesmere Port) September, 1969 5,100 33,600 Girlings (Cwmbran) October, 1968 300 1,800 Liverpool docks (1) December, 1968 200 800 (2) May, 1969 G.L.C. dustmen October, 1969 2,400 (to 29th October) 13,400 (to 28th October) Many families received more than one payment of supplementary benefit and it is not therefore possible to say just how many families were involved.
The best estimate that can now be made of the administrative cost of disbursing this benefit is that it was of the order of £6,000—£6,500.