§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the numbers of unemployed receiving supplementary allowances only and express that as a proportion of the total number of supplementary allowance recipients for the most recent date available.
§ Mrs. Chalker, pursuant to her reply 27 July 1979, c. 669]: The latest available information is based on a 2 per cent. sample taken at supplementary benefit
Thousands Numbers included in column (1) with reason for non-payment of unemployment benefit Registered unemployed receiving receiving supplementary allowance only Contribution deficiency Benefit exhausted Leaving voluntarily and misconduct Title not yet determined Other reasons (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) 515 195 264 9 39 7