§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the estimated take-up for free milk, free prescriptions, remission of optical and dental charges, and payments of fares to hospital; and what steps he is taking to bring these benefits to the attention of those eligible for them.
§ Dr. Vaughan[pursuant to his reply, 29 June 1979, c. 362–63]: The corrected information is as follows. I regret that the estimated number stated to be eligible at December 1976 in Great Britain, for free welfare milk tokens on low income grounds, other than supplementary benefit or FIS, was incorrectly given as 1,518,000 This should have been 500,000, and the percentage take-up figure for this category 2.5 per cent. rather than 0.8 per cent.