HC Deb 20 November 1987 vol 122 c709W
Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people in(a) Greenock and Port Glasgow, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland as a whole were receiving supplementary benefit payments above the standard rate in order to help pay residential or nursing home fees at the latest available date; and if he will estimate the total amount of supplementary benefit paid to those claimants.

Mr. Portillo

I regret that the information requested is not collected by individual local offices and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.