HC Deb 03 December 1987 vol 123 cc692-3W
Rev. Martin Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether he will publish in due course his social fund allocations for each office in Northern Ireland, with figures for the number of claimants at each office in Northern Ireland, and express the social fund sums for each office as a sum per head for the claimants of each office; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Needham

The budget for the discretionary part of the Northern Ireland social fund for 1988–89, its first year of operation, will be £21.1 million. Of this, some £7.2 million will be for community care grants, £13–7 million for loans and just under £0–2 million will be held back as

Allocation For
Social Security Office Caseload (July 1987) Loans Grants Total Per Capita
£ £ £ £
Andersonstown 7,754 905,619 471,353 1,376,972 178
Antrim 5,487 435,034 227,975 663,009 121
Armagh 5,078 322,985 170,219 493,204 97
Ballymena 6,547 379,364 199,742 579,106 88
Ballymoney 4,358 271,671 142,756 414,427 95
Ballynahinch 1,502 41,788 22,590 64,378 43
Banbridge 3,358 159,069 84,721 243,790 73
Bangor 4,848 177,038 94,874 271,912 56
Carrickfergus 3,078 165,336 87,156 252,492 82
Coleraine 6,066 428,571 224,795 653,366 108
Cookstown 3,586 260,206 136,787 396,993 111
Corporation Street 12,596 1,078,670 565,760 1,644,430 131
Downpatrick 2,797 164,193 86,599 250,792 90
Dungannon 6,137 405,542 213,702 619,244 101
Enniskillen 8,490 301,787 161,813 463,600 55
Falls Road 9,390 753,462 392,588 1,146,050 122
Holywood Road 9,286 489,148 258,404 747,552 81
Kilkeel 1,480 58,162 31,118 89,280 60
Knockbreda 6,657 253,421 137,060 390,481 59
Larne 2,965 163,604 85,372 248,976 84
Limavady 3,227 142,863 73,986 216,849 67
Lisburn 6,694 730,380 385,532 1,115,912 167
Londonderry 15,901 1,164,923 606,217 1,771,140 111
Lurgan 6,100 848,299 445,083 1,293, 82 212
Magherafelt 5,289 435,749 229,896 665,645 126
Newcastle 1,941 76,819 40,816 117,635 61
Newery 9,748 697,358 366,163 1,063,521 104
Newtownabbey 5,941 273,545 143,538 417,083 70
Newtownards 3,910 142,875 76,297 219,172 56
Omagh 6,039 395,880 208,563 604,443 100
Portadown 3,992 209,130 111,211 320,341 80
Shaftesbury Square 8,152 584,247 305,219 889,466 109
Shankill 5,328 381,282 201,247 582,529 109
Strabane 6,039 402,120 210,940 613,060 102

Rev. Martin Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement giving his reasons why the social fund allocations for Northern Ireland were not announced along with those for Great Britain, pursuant to his answer of 17 November,Official Report, column 532, to the hon. Member for Belfast, South.

Mr. Needham

The information was not available.

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