§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Social Services on how many occasions in the last 12 months new order books have been issued to persons whose order books have gone missing, for whatever reason, on, respectively, one, two, three or more occasions.
§ Mr. OrmeThe information is not currently available centrally, although the case for having it is being studied.
§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many order books have gone missing for whatever reason in each of the last five years; what proportion belonged to retirement pensioners; and what was the total value of the order books missing in each year, respectively.
§ Mr. OrmeOrder books reported to the Department as not received, lost, stolen or destroyed in the last five years numbered:
1972 79,911 1973 81,638 1974 80,735 1975 92,396 1976 86,938 The other information requested could not be provided without disproportionate effort.