HC Deb 20 February 1984 vol 54 cc423-4W
Mr. Galley

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what changes in staff numbers employed by the Yorkshire regional health authority and the Calderdale health authority there have been since 1974–75 in each of the following categories: medical, nursing, professional and technical, works, administrative, clerical, ambulance and ancillary.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

Expressed in whole-time equivalents, the information available is as follows:

whom his Department has notified the local authority about an excess income figure before the final figure has been made available.

Dr. Boyson

Local authorities were advised in circular HC(82)2 — the Housing Benefits Scheme: Implementation—that housing benefit supplement should be put into payment on an interim basis as soon as it has been calculated. The amount awarded is then confirmed or revised by the supplementary benefit officer.

Mr. Tony Lloyd

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he has any information on the number of people in receipt of housing benefit who have fallen into rent arrears because of retrospective adjustments in the level of benefit.

Dr. Boyson

No information is held centrally about retrospective adjustments in the level of benefit.