§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate the number of people not required to be available for employment under the provisions of each paragraph of Regulation 6 of the Supplementary Benefit (Conditions of Entitlement) Regulations 1981 on the last date for which figures are available.
§ Dr. BoysonDetailed records are not maintained to show all the reasons why persons are not regarded as available for employment. Persons receiving supplementary allowance and not required to be available are divided into broad groups as follows. These roughly equate with the paragraphs of Regulation 6 indicated.
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Group Numbers at May 1983 One parent families (regulation 6(a)) 438,000 Required at home to care for aged or sick adult relatives (regulation 6(b)) 10,000 Incapable of work due to sickness or disability (regulation 6(c)) 206,000 Men over 60 entitled to long-term scale rate (regulation 6(p)) 60,000 Others 41,000 Source: Quarterly statistical enquiry.
§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate the number of unemployed disabled people aged under 60 years (a) receiving the ordinary rate of supplementary benefit and (b) receiving the long-term rate of supplementary benefit.
§ Dr. BoysonI regret that the information is not available.