§ Mr. Humeasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement indicating the total number, by social security office, of severe weather payments for the relevant two weeks of January 1987 which are not to be paid directly to claimants but to be treated as deductions in respect of fuel arrears from a previous period.
§ Mr. NeedhamNone. It is intended that these payments should go towards fuel costs incurred during the relevant weeks.