HC Deb 09 June 1986 vol 99 cc99-100W
Mr. Dewar

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many statutory single payments were made to pensioners in Scotland under the supplementary benefit rules in each of the last five years for which records arc available.

Mr. Newton

[pursuant to his reply, 22 May 1986, c. 315]: The information requested is as follows:

District health authority Local authority 1' Non-metropolitan district councils unless otherwise indicated)
Northern Regional Health Authority
Northumberland Northumberland (CC) which includes Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick, Castle Morpeth, Wansbeck, Blyth Valley, Tynedale Districts
South Cumbria South Lakeland
South Tees Langbaurgh and Middlesbrough
Hartlepool Hartlepool
North Tees Stockton-on-Tees
Darlington Teesdale and Darlington
South West Durham Wear Valley and Sedgefield
Durham Durham, Easington, Chester-le-street
North West Durham Derwentside
Newcastle Newcastle-upon-Tyne (MD)
North Tyneside North Tyneside (MD)
South Tyneside South Tyneside (MD)
Sunderland Sunderland (MD)
Gateshead Gateshead (MD)
Yorkshire Regional Health Authority
Calderdale Calderdale
Scunthorpe Boothferry, Scunthorpe, Glanford
East Yorkshire East Yorkshire and Beverley
Hull Kingston upon Hull, Holderness
Grimsby Cleethorpes, Great Grimsby
Trent Regional Health Authority
Barnsley Barnsley (MD)
Doncaster Doncaster (MD)
Rotherham Rotherham (MD)
Sheffield Sheffield (MD)
Bassetlaw Bassetlaw

Year (May to April) Number of single payments awards to pensioners in Scotland
1981–82 47,110
1982–83 36,426
1983–84 42,982
1984–85 79.109
1985–86 *110,615
* Provisional.

Source: Management Information System—100 per cent. count.