§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will state, for each office of his Department covering the constituency of Leyton, the number of outstanding claims, broken-down into (a) single payment claims and (b) other claims, and the current average time for settlement of these, and the time involved in the current longest dozen outstanding claims for each office.
§ Mr. LyellTwo of the Department's local offices serve the Leyton constituency, Leytonstone and Walthamstow, but their boundaries are not co-terminous. Some of the information requested is not available; the table sets out the figures which are:
Leytonstone Walthamstow Single payments outstanding on 25 November 84 979 Other supplementary benefit claims outstanding on 25 November 94 334 Average clearance times for supplementary benefit claims, other than single payments, during the 4 weeks up to 18 November 3 days 10 days Local offices do not routinely keep records of clearance times for single payments. Nor do they normally maintain records of the receipt of claims in date order.However, in the case of these offices there is information available about claims which have been outstanding longest. These were as follows on the dates given:
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Leytonstone Other claims Single payments 17 October 1986 2 June 1986 22 October 1986 9 September 1986 27 October 1986 29 October 1986 27 October 1986 6 November 1986 29 October 1986 10 November 1986 30 October 1986 11 November 1986 3 November 1986 11 November 1986 3 November 1986 11 November 1986 5 November 1986 13 November 1986 5 November 1986 18 November 1986 5 November 1986 18 November 1986 5 November 1985 20 November 1986
Walthamstow Other claims Single payments 24 September 1986 3 October 1986 25 September 1986 3 October 1986 13 October 1986 5 October 1986 17 October 1986 20 October 1986 21 October 1986 20 October 1986 23 October 1986 27 October 1986 27 October 1986 3 November 1986 27 October 1986 5 November 1986 27 October 1986 5 November 1986 7 November 1986 10 November 1986 7 November 1986 10 November 1986 10 November 1986 10 November 1986