§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, of the estimated 378W whom 92,000 were married men. No detailed information is available on the number of dependent children but the number is likely to be small as the total number for all supplementary pensioner families was only 7,000.
§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will update table 12.3 in the Supplementary Benefits Commission annual report 1976.
§ Mrs. Chalker[pursuant to her reply, 30 November 1979, c. 829–30]: The information is as follows:
number of claimants helped in each category and (ii) the average payment to each group.
§ Mrs. Chalker[pursuant to her reply, 30 November 1979, c. 829–30]: The information requested on exceptional circumstances additions is as follows:
400,000 pensioners who were found by the inspectorate survey in the winter of 1975–76 not to be getting a heating addition for which they were eligible, how many were above and below 75 years of age.
§ Mrs. Chalker[pursuant to her reply, 30 November 1979, c. 829–30]: I regret that this information could not be obtained save at disproportionate expense.