§ Mr. Bestasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many applications there have been for single payments under regulation 30 of the Supplementary Benefits (Single Payments) Regulations; how many payments have been made in each region; for what items payments have been made; how much has been paid out by the Department in total; and how much was originally budgeted for regulation 30 payments.
§ Mrs. ChalkerI regret that not all the information requested is available. The following table shows the number and cost of the single payments under regulation 30 made in each region during the period 24 November 1980 to 9 June 1981. The total number of requests for these payments is not known, because unsuccessful applications are not recorded on statistical returns. Nor is information available on the items for which these payments have been made. Financial resources are not separately allocated for expenditure on these single payments.
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Region Number of Payments Amount £ East Midlands and East Anglia 101 3,440 London North 142 3,400 London South 140 6,606 London West 67 2,014 Merseyside 42 2,214 North Western Manchester 131 5,784 Northern 51 2,828 Scotland 90 6,512 South Western 94 2,302 Wales 43 2,240 West Midlands 23 808 Yorks and Humberside *85 *2,256 Total 1,009 42,412 * These data may be incomplete because of industrial action.