HC Deb 04 December 1987 vol 123 cc763-4W
Mr. Nigel Grifliths

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services, if he will give(a) the number of supplementary benefit recipients and (b) the number of elderly people in receipt of supplementary pensions from each of the local offices servicing Edinburgh for each year since 1979.

Mr. Portillo

The table sets out the information requested for each of the five local offices which serve Edinburgh.

information relating to an individual patient should not be disclosed without the patients consent. If the hon. Member has a particular case in mind perhaps he would care to write to me about it.