§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the purchasing power of the retirement pension now; and how this compares with one year ago and February 1974.
64Wsocial benefits drawn; and what retirement pensions would be drawn by the same number of people who retired at 65 years of age.
§ Mr. OrmeI regret that the information requested by my hon. Friend is not available. A separate record is not kept of the number of claims to unemployment benefit or supplementary benefit made by engineers nor of the amounts of benefit paid to them.