§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many young people of the ages (a) 16 and (b) 17 years are in receipt of supplementary benefit in (i) Scotland and (ii) the United Kingdom as a whole.
§ Dr. BoysonThe figures at December 1982, the latest date for which information is available, are as follows:
Scotland United Kingdom Great Britain Northern Ireland Aged 16 8,000 65,000 7,000 Aged 17 14,000 118,000 For the United Kingdom figures are given separately for Great Britain and Northern Ireland because records in Northern Ireland do not distinguish between the two ages.