§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many persons subject in the last year to the withdrawal of their supplementary allowance under the four-week rule re-applied for the continuation of this allowance; of these, how many were successful and unsuccessful; of those who were successful, how many applied for a second renewal after the end of the second four-week period, and of these, how many were successful.
§ Mr. DeanThe precise information requested is not available, but in the 11 months to October, 1971, there were 6,067 claimants whose allowance had been limited to 4 weeks at the outset of their claim who renewed their claim at the end of four weeks or shortly after, 4,414 successfully.
Since November, 1970, no records have been kept of the number of renewal claims