§ Mr. Nicholas Bakerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what action is being undertaken to ensure the future availability of more accurate statistics relating to social class mortality, in the light of the outcome of the 1979–80 and 1982–83 occupational mortality supplement.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe Office of Population Censuses and Surveys' longitudinal study provides statistics of social class mortality free of the bias in the Registrar General's decennial supplement on occupational mortality. Some statistics from the logitudinal study for the period 1981–83 have already been published in "Population Trends No. 45" and results for the period 1981–85 will be available in due course.
1 January 1985 1 January 1986 1 November 1986 Supplementary Benefit Contributory Benefit Supplementary Benefit Contributory Benefit Supplementary Benefit Contributory Benefit Irene House 136.0 54 126.5 49.0 138.5 45.5 Arndale House 85.5 51 85.5 45.5 84.5 42.0 Parkgate Road 138.0 30 125.5 28.5 127.0 30.0
§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many families with children were dependent on supplementary benefit in 1984 broken down by (a) economic status, (b) according to whether they were one-parent or two-parent families and (c) by duration of time on supplementary benefit;
(2) if he will publish a breakdown of the number of supplementary benefit claimants and dependants in 1984 broken down by social security region;
(3) if he will publish a table using his Department's low income families 1983 tables showing how many people fell below supplementary benefit level, were on supplementary benefit or 140 per cent. of supplementary benefit level, analysed according to both economic and family status together at the latest available date.