§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of people in Dundee currently in receipt of supplementary benefit; and how many of them are pensioners and the heads of one-parent families.
§ Mrs. Chalker:Following is the information at August 1980. It relates to people receiving supplementary benefit
(1) Total registered unemployed claimants (2) Title to Unemployment benefit exhausted (3) Col (2) as a percentage of Col (1) Dundee area* 11,800 2,600 22.0 Scotland 233,100 51,500 22.1 Great Britain 1,805,500 349,400 19.4 * The area covered by the unemployment benefit offices in Dundee and the associated office in Forfar Source: 100 per cent count of persons claiming unemployment benefit or credits.
§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of those unemployed in Dundee who receive neither unemployment nor supplementary benefit; and what percentage of those unemployed they account for.
§ Mrs. Chalker:At 14 August 1980, the latest date for which information is available, there were 1,800 claimants for unemployment benefit or unemployment credits who were receiving neither unemployment nor supplementary benefits in the area covered by the Dundee unemployment benefit offices, including the associated office in Forfar. This was 14.9 per cent. of the total of such claimants. However, the figure includes 1,000 claimants whose entitlement to unemployment benefit had not yet been determined.