HC Deb 12 April 1988 vol 131 c106W
Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many supplementary benefit claimants received the estate rate heating addition(a) at the lower rate and (b) at the higher rate in each year since 1984.

Mr. Portillo

The information requested is not available for all of the years requested. Figures from the annual statistical inquiry for 1984 and 1986 are as follows. There was no statistical inquiry in 1985 and the 1987 figures a re not yet available.

Estate rate heating additions
Numbers 000s
December 1984 February 1986
Lower rate 39 51
Higher rate 10 13