HC Deb 13 February 1984 vol 54 c103W
Mr. Frank Field

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many claimants drawing (a) the noncontributory invalidity pension and also drawing supplementary benefit and (b) the housewife's noncontributory invalidity pension are also members of a household drawing supplementary benefit.

Mr. Newton

The estimated numbers at December 1982, the latest date for which information is available, are(a) about 69,000 and (b) about 5,000.