HC Deb 02 June 1981 vol 5 cc343-4W
Mr. Best

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he has any plans to help people on supplementary benefit with the cost of insulating their hot water cylinders.

Mrs. Chalker

My right hon. Friend proposes to make grants available for the cost of hot water cylinder jackets

from next November to certain people receiving supplementary benefit. The elderly, the disabled, the chronically sick, families with children under 16, pregnant women and the long-term unemployed will be eligible for these grants. We shall make the necessary amendment to the Supplementary Benefit (Single Payments) Regulations shortly.