HC Deb 05 March 1987 vol 111 cc672-3W
Dr. Godman

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the total number of people in receipt of unemployment benefit and supplementary benefit in the Greenock and Port Glasgow constituency at the latest available date.

Mr. Lyell

The available information is given in the tables :

At 14 August 1986 Number of persons receiving
UB only UB and SB SB only
Greenock UBO 1,559 250 3,541
Port Glasgow UBO 788 171 1,764

At 10 February 1987 Number of supplementary benefit cases in action
Greenock DHSS Office 12,139
Port Glasgow DHSS Office 5,385

Notes

  1. 1. The DHSS office boundaries are not conterminous with those of the constituency.
  2. 2. The DHSS figures are of all supplementary benefit cases and include those whose benefit is paid through the UBOs.

Mr. Ralph Howell

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what would be the saving if no social security, housing, or welfare benefits other than child benefit were paid to any single person whose income was more than £65 per week and to couples married or otherwise whose income was more than £130 per week.

Mr. Major

[pursuant to his reply, 2 March 1987, c. 496]: It is estimated that in 1985-the latest year for which figures are available the total benefit saving in Great Britain would have been about £3.5 billion, all else being equal.