§ Mrs. Beckettasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many claims for cold weather payments have been received by each local office of his Department i respect of the week commencing 19 January.
§ Mr. MajorStatistics on the number of exceptionally cold weather claims processed are being maintained but these have not yet been collated. Details will be provide in due course.
§ Mrs. Beckettasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people were receiving supplementary benefit in each of the categories eligible, subject to the £500 capital limit, for cold weather payments (a) in Great Britain and (b) from each of the Derby social security offices, at the latest date for which information i available.
§ Mr. MajorIt is estimated that in Great Britain there are about 1 million pensioners, 200,000 claimants with sic and disabled members of the family and 175,000 families with a child under 2 in the groups eligible to claim exceptionally cold weather payments. Information i respect of individual offices is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.