§ Dr. Edmund Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people were in receipt of earnings-related supplement to sickness or unemployment benefit on 1st January 1976.
§ Mr. O'MalleyI regret that the information requested is not available for January 1976. As at May 1975 there were about 170,000 people receiving unemployment benefit who were also in receipt of earnings-related supplement; and as at June 1974 there were about 260,000 such sickness benefit recipients.