§ Mr. David Steelasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of the unemployed and other wage-stopped claimants for each year since 1953, giving the average amount of the weekly wage stop deduction.
§ Mr. DeanFollowing is the information:
NUMBER OF CLAIMANTS WAGE-STOPPED AT TIME OF ANNUAL STATISTICAL ENQUIRY Year Number Average deduction £ 1953 2,440 0.56 1954 2,720 0.47 1955 2,280 0.60 1956 2,840 0.47 1957 2,920 0.53 1958 7,000 0.61 1959 20,720 0.95 1960 15,280 1.07 1961 14,960 1.02 1962 28,400 1.10 1963 27,600 1.37 1964 16,560 1.30 1965 20,453 1.87 1966 No information available 1967 37,545 1.67 1968 32,412 1.44 1969 34,038 1.65 1970 35,619 1.98 1971 23,231 1.49 1972 25,411 2.04
§ Mr. David Steelasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of wage stopped supplementary benefit claimants; and if he will break down this total into claimants who are wage stopped at 50p or less, 51p but less than £1, £1–01 but less than £2, £201 but less than £3, £301 but less than £4, £401 but less than £5 and £5 and over.
§ Mr. DeanIn May 1973 the total was approximately 8,500, but no analysis is 547W available of the amount of the wage stop deduction. The latest available analysis is based on a sample of some 25,400 claimants wage-stopped in November 1972; following is the information:
Range of Deduction No. of Claimants 50p and under 4,073 51p—£1.00 4,424 £1.01—£2.00 6,904 £2.01—£3.00 4,549 £3.01—£4.00 2,050 £4.01—£5.00 1,973 Over £5.00 1,438 25,411
§ Mr. John Smithasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate approximately the number of persons to whose application for benefit the wage stop is applied.
§ Mr. DeanIn May 1973, the latest date for which information is available, 8,453 supplementary benefit claimants were wage-stopped.