§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the numbers and value of single payments of supplementary benefit in each of the Deparment of Health and Social Security Offices serving the county of Gwynedd in each year since November 1980, showing separate figures for maternity expenses, funeral expenses and other single payments.
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Office 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 Anglesey Number 1,042 1,056 1,641 3,189 4,865 Amount £ 37,309 42,157 79,705 170,700 284,760 Caernarfon Number 713 841 1,117 2,284 3,858 * Not directly comparable with the "other instrumental" rates in table 1. The latter include breech extractions without other instrumentalmethods, of which there are about 10 per 1,000 deliveries in England.
† Births in non-federal short stay hospitals.
n/a=Not available.
The decision to perform a caesarian section, or any other procedure, in a particular case is, of course, a matter of clinical judgment.