§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish in the Official Report the total number of supplementary benefit claimants for 1974; and if she will break down this information in a similar way to the information on supplementary benefit recipients presented in table 50 of "Social Trends No. 4".
§ Mr. Alec JonesProvisional information relating to November 1974 is as follows:
Thousands Retirement pensioners and national insurance widows aged 60 years and over 1,708 Others over pension age 92 Unemployed with national insurance benefit 73* Unemployed without national insurance benefit 230* Sick and disabled with national insurance benefit 96 Sick and disabled without national insurance benefit 166 Women under 60 with dependent children 248 National insurance widows under 60 44 Others 23 Total persons receiving supplementary benefit 2,681* —of whom wage-stopped (unemployed) 7 * Excludes the unemployed who received no payment of supplementary benefit during week of the enquiry made in November 1974.