§ Mr. David Steelasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of unemployed and other wage-stopped claimants and their dependants for each year since 1948; and if she will give the 213W average amount of the weekly wage-stop deductions.
§ Mr. Robert C. BrownFollowing is the available information:
NUMBER OF CLAIMANTS WAGE.STOPPED AT TIME OF ANNUAL STATISTICAL INQUIRY, 1952–72 Year Number Average deduction £ 1952 … … 3,960 Not available 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 Comparable information is not available for 1948–51 nor, as yet, for 1973; information about the number of dependants is only available for 1970–72 as follows:—
1970 … … … … … 192,000 1971 … … … … … 141,000 1972 … … … … … 149,000