§ 48. Mr. O'Halloranasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many retired pensioners, and how many others, were in receipt of supplementary benefit rent allowances in the areas of each Department of Health and Social Security office in Greater London at the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. DeanAs my right hon. Friend told the right hon. Member for Lanark (Mrs. Hart) on 18th January statistics about rent allowances are collected nationally by sampling. They cannot therefore be provided for local office areas. In November, 1971, local offices in the Greater London Council area were paying supplementary benefit rent allowances to 237,000 retirement pensioners and to 94,000 others.—[Vol. 829. c.124]