§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information his Department has made publicly available regarding the latest date for claiming eligibility to earnings-related supplements to national insurance benefits. 218W the number of dependants on supplementary benefits in 1970, 1974, 1979 and the latest available date for the Birkenhead area; and if he will classify this information according to whether the claimant was (i) unemployed, (ii) sick, (iii) one-parent family, (iv) retired or (v) other.
§ Mrs. ChalkerInformation is not available in the form requested. However, the following table shows numbers of claimants receiving supplementary benefit from the two local DHSS offices in Birkenhead* which in the main cover the area of the former borough council. Information on the number of dependants is available only on a national
§ Mrs. ChalkerI refer the hon. Member to the reply which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister gave to the hon. Member for Stockport, North (Mr. Bennett) on 1 December.—[Vol. 14, c.136–38.]