§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many
580W
§ Mr. Orme,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 31st January 1978; Vol. 943, c. 113], gave the following information:
Estimates of the number of families and persons dependent on supplementary benefit are now available for all categories for December 1976 and are as follows:
given to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North, Official Report, 13th February 1976, column 421.
§ Mr. Orme,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 31st January 1978; Vol. 943, c. 113], gave the following information:
claims for (a) national insurance benefit of each type and (b) additions to each benefit were dismissed only on grounds of being outside time limits in each of 581W the last five years; and what proportion of total claims these dismissed claims, and other dismissed claims, constitute;
(2) if he will list in the Official Report the time limits affecting eligibility to claim for each national insurance benefit and its specific additions; and what advice is regularly given to claimants about time limits likely to affect them.