Welfare Milk and Vitamins (Hansard, 17 February 1987)

§ Mr. Madden
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many women and children in Bradford are in receipt of free welfare milk and vitamins in the last year for which figures are available.

§ Mr. Lyell
I regret that the information requested is not collected by individual local offices and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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Period of deferment Men Category A women³ Category ABL women with increases to category A pension⁴

With increases for deferment Total 13,260 15,210 1,040

Total pension awards 147,290 80,630 13,310

¹ Excludes women whose pensions derive from their husband's contributions. Increments to their pensions stem from their husband's decision to defer retirement.

2 No increases for deferement are paid in respect of periods where a person over pensionable age is in receipt of another national insurance benefit, such as invalidity benefit.

3 Women awarded pensions derived solely from their own contributions.

4 Women awarded pensions derived partly from their own and partly from their husband's contributions whose increments arise from deferment of pension on their own contributions.

Source: Retirement Pensions and Widows' Benefit Statistics: biannual enquiry. Movement Tables.

§ Mr. Pike
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people there are of retirement age in each district authority area in Lancashire; and how many and what proportion are (a) married, (b) single men and (c) single women.

§ Mr. Lyell
Only the number of people of retirement age (taken as 65 for men and 60 for women) broken down into male and female is available annually; the remaining information is taken from the 1981 census of population—the latest available information—and shown in the following table.

Period of deferment	Men	Category A women³	Category ABL women with increases to category A pension⁴
With increases for deferment Total	13,260	15,210	1,040
Total pension awards	147,290	80,630	13,310
¹ Excludes women whose pensions derive from their husband's contributions. Increments to their pensions stem from their husband's decision to defer retirement.
2 No increases for deferement are paid in respect of periods where a person over pensionable age is in receipt of another national insurance benefit, such as invalidity benefit.
3 Women awarded pensions derived solely from their own contributions.
4 Women awarded pensions derived partly from their own and partly from their husband's contributions whose increments arise from deferment of pension on their own contributions.