§ Mr. Sean Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make available detailed statistics for the Huyton office of his Department of the result of the 1983 Merseyside county council take-up campaign.
§ Dr. Boyson[pursuant to his reply, 4 June 1984, c. 36]: For the Huyton local office the following information is available:
Huyton Total number of postcards received 1,723 Claims for weekly payments* Awarded No entitlement Pensioners 37 151 Unemployed Claimants 1 25 Others 12 216 Total 50 392
Claims for single payments Awarded† Amount (£) Pensioners 143 5,384 Unemployed Claimants 323 23,081 Others 217 11,415 Total 683 39,880 * Either claims for increase of benefits already in payment, or new claims. † Records are not kept of refusals of single payments.