§ Mr. Mike Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information is available to her as to the number of queries, problems and claims currently presented to social security offices and social services departments, respectively, which in whole or in part relate to fuel debts and disconnections as compared with 12, 24 and 36 months ago.
§ Mr. MeacherInformation on the number and types of inquiries received is not among the statistics which my Department asks local social service authorities to provide. At local social security offices the number of personal callers exceeds 10 million a year, in addition to which there is a very heavy volume of postal and telephone inquiries, and it is not feasible to have these inquiries recorded and analysed by such categories.
Year ended 30th September 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 Number of vehicles on issue: (a) 3-wheeler with automatic transmission — — — — — — — — (b) 3-wheeler with manual gearchange 15,855 16,505 17,515 18,143 18,442 18,805 18,936 18,437 (c)Electrically propelled 3-wheeler (d)Cars 4,962 5,706 6,271 6,878 7,287 6,961 7,896 7,126 Number of reported accidents: (a) 3-wheeler with automatic transmission — — — — — — — 438 (b) 3-wheeler with manual gearchange 4,599 4,904 5,366 5,086 5,133 5,094 4,542 4,207 (c) Electrically propelled 3-wheeler 145 238 (d)Cars 1,145 1,292 1,545 1,712 1,895 2,067 1,946 1,700 Figures for years 1965 to 1971 are for England and Wales.
Figures for years 1972 to 1974 are for England only.