§ Mr. Cookasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if, following the reply to the hon. Member for Manchester, Central (Mr. Litherland), Official Report, 11 February 1980, c. 488–89, he will publish in the Official Report the number and percentage of child benefit recipients whose benefit is payable to only one parent, for each local authority area in Scotland.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe only available information is that, at December 1978, there were an estimated 84,000 child92W benefit recipients in Scotland—representing about 12 per cent. of the total—whose benefit was payable in the name of one person only. More up-to-date estimates for each local authority area should become available later in the year, when I will write to the hon. Member with the results.