§ Mr. Johnasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate the number of single payments made in 1983 to (a) pensioners, (b) the unemployed, (c) the sick and disabled, (d) one parent families and (e) others, giving in each case the average amount paid; and if he will list the payments made to each group by the regulation under which they were made.
§ .Dr BoysonThe information requested is not yet available for single payments in 1983. Estimates for 1982 of the numbers of single payments made under each regulation for different groups of claimants, and of the average amounts of single payments under each regulation for all claimants, are available in table 19.3 of the "Supplementary Benefit Annual Statistical Enquiry 1982", a copy of which is in the Library.