§ 35. Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will arrange an investigation to ascertain the amount of retirement pension and supplementary benefit recipients spend on food.
§ Mr. DeanNo. Information of this kind is already available from the Family Expenditure Survey, which shows that in 1972 one-person households where at least three-quarters of the total income was derived from retirement and/or supplementary pension spent on average £2.97 on food.