§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many payments of the death grant have been made in each of the past four years by region; and what proportion of each of these have been paid to families of persons who were in receipt of supplementary benefit allowance.
§ Mr. OrmeI regret that records of the payments of death grant are not kept on a regional basis. The total number of death grants paid in Great Britain during this period was as follows:
1974 … … … 543,166 1975 … … … 560,969 1976 … … … 565,210 1977 … … … 566,757 No information is available as to the numbers of death grants paid to supplementary beneficiaries.