§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services by what means he ensures that local supplementary benefit offices will keep records in older to enable identification of current supplementary benefit claimants who, although they will receive housing benefit instead of supplementary benefit after April 1982, may eventually become entitled to the long-term scale rate.
§ Mr. NewtonAn instruction to this end was issued to local office staff on 15 October 1982.