§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the number of claimants drawing family income supplement employed by local authorities in (a) Wirral, (b) Liverpool and (c) Merseyside at the latest available date.
§ Mr. NewtonI regret that this information is not available. The occupational classifications used by the Department for statistical purposes are too general to enable local authority staff to be identified. Figures are also collected on the basis of social security regions. About 1,000 family income supplement recipients resident in the department's North-West (Merseyside) region were employed in the public sector in April 1982 (the latest date for which figures are available). For this purpose, the public sector includes employments in government departments, local authorities, nationalised industries and public corporations, boards and trusts.