§ Mr. Neil HamiltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will tabulate by specialty the number of cases dealt with by the Crewe district health authority for each year since 1979.
§ Mrs. CurrieI refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Eddisbury (Mr. Goodlad) on 17 December 1987 at column715.
§ Mr. Neil HamiltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will tabulate by specialty the waiting list figures in the Crewe health authority as at 31 March in each year since 1981.
§ Mr. NewtonThe information requested is given in the table.
£ million 1985–86 368 1986–87 365 1987–881 166 1 8 April 1987 to 12 Janary 1988. Note: Information for 1986–87 and 1987–88 is provisional.
§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in theOfficial Report for each local office in Great Britain the single payment expenditure for the 32 weeks ended on 7 April 1987 and for the corresponding period in 1985–86 and 1984–85, and the supplementary benefit case load for each in the same period.
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§ Mr. PortilloThe single payment expenditure by each of the Department's local offices in Great Britain for the 32 weeks ended on 7 April 1987 is available in the table "Supplementary Benefit Single Payment Expenditure, 27 August 1986 to 7 April 1987".
The number of people receiving supplementary benefit, by local office, on 10 February 1987 is available in the table, "Analysis of Supplementary Benefit Claimants as at 10 February and 28 July 1987".
Copies of each of the tables are in the Library.
Similar information for the corresponding periods in 1984–85 and 1985–86 is not available in the form requested and would be disproportionately costly to obtain.