HC Deb 24 November 1982 vol 32 cc498-500W
Mr. Hooley

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what special additions for fuel or heating are currently payable to persons drawing supplementary benefit; and how these compare, at constant prices, with those available in November 1978.

Mr. Newton

The rates of heating addition payable from November 1978, November 1981 and November 1982 are shown in the following table. The rates for November 1978 have been converted to November 1981 prices in line with the increase in the retail prices index over that period and rounded to the nearest 5p. The figures cannot be converted to November 1982 prices until the retail prices index for that month is available. I shall write to the hon. Member then with the revised figures.

Percentage of usually resident population:
of pensionable age of pensionable age and resident in homes for old and disabled
Avon:
Bath 22.6 0.6
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Carrick 23.1 0.6
North Cornwall 22.2 0.5
Penwith 24.1 0.5
Restormel 20.9 0.5
Cumbria:
South Lakeland 23.1 0.5
Devon:
East Devon 30.7 1.0
North Devon 22.3 0.7
South Hams 23.6 0.4
Teignbridge 26.6 1.2
Percentage of usually resident population:
of pensionable age of pensionable age and resident in homes for old and disabled
Torbay 29.2 1.3
Torridge 23.0 0.4
West Devon 21.9 0.8
Dorset:
Bournemouth 30.1 1.3
Christchurch 32.3 0.4
North Dorset 23.2 0.3
Poole 22.7 0.4
West Dorset 25.4 0.5
Wimborne 25.3 0.2
East Sussex:
Brighton 24.3 0.6
Eastbourne 33.5 1.2
Hastings 27.0 1.6
Hove 31.0 1.1
Lewes 25.5 0.6
Rother 35.3 0.9
Wealden 26.5 0.6
Essex:
Southend-on-Sea 24.9 0.8
Tendring 30.2 0.6
Gloucestershire:
Cotswold 21.6 0.4
Outer London:
Richmond-upon-Thames 20.9 0.6
Hampshire:
New Forest 22.7 0.5
Portsmouth 21.0 0.6
Hereford and Worcester:
Leominster 21.0 0.4
Humberside:
East Yorkshire 22.6 0.5
Isle of Wight:
Medina 23.7 0.3
South Wight 29.1 1.2
Kent:
Canterbury 24.7 0.7
Shepway 25.2 0.4
Thanet 28.2 1.1
Lancashire:
Blackpool 25.8 0.7
Fylde 24.9 0.9
Lancaster 24.1 0.5
Wyre 23.9 0.2
Lincolnshire:
East Lindsey 22.3 0.3
Norfolk:
Great Yarmouth 20.9 0.3
North Norfolk 26.5 0.6
Northumberland:
Berwick-upon-Tweed 22.7 0.4
North Yorkshire:
Craven 21.7 0.3
Scarborough 24.9 0.8
Shropshire:
South Shropshire 21.8 0.6
Somerset:
West Somerset 30.2 0.9
Suffolk:
Suffolk Coastal 21.9 0.4
Waveney 22.2 0.5
Surrey:
Epson and Ewell 21.4 0.2
West Sussex:
Adur 24.4 0.5
Arun 32.0 0.8
Chichester 24.0 0.6
Worthing 34.9 1.6
Clwyd:
Colwyn 29.1 1.0
Glyndwr 21.2 0.4
Percentage of usually resident population:
of pensionable age of pensionable age and resident in homes for old and disabled
Rhuddlan 26.8 0.9
Dyfed:
Ceredigion 22.0 0.5
Dinefwr 22.0 0.5
Gwynedd:
Aberconwy 26.9 0.7
Dwyfor 24.6 0.3
Meirionnydd 23.4 0.5
Powys:
Radnor 21.7 0.4

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