§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his answer of 18 December 1987,Official Report, column 935, if he will publish a similar table of severe weather payments which includes figures for the Castle Gate office of his Department in proportion to its Nottingham, North constituency clients.
§ Mr. ScottThe total and weekly number of exceptionally cold weather payments made by the Castlegate office last winter is as follows. Information on what proportion of those payments was made to claimants in the Nottingham, North consituency is not available but is likely to be very small, since only a small part of that constituency lies within the area covered by the Castlegate office.
The figures given are for the statitical weeks ending on the dates specified. I regret that my reply on 18 December, at column 935, in relation to the local offices which cover most of the Nottingham, North constituency, wrongly stated that the figures were for the weeks commencing on those dates.
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Number of exceptionally cold weather payments made by Nottingham Castlegate office by week of payment in the winter of 1986–87 Payment made in week ending Number of £5 weekly payments made 20 January 1987 200 27 January 1987 1,957 3 February 1987 1,115 10 February 1987 363 17 February 1987 252 24 February 1987 137 3 March 1987 139 10 March 1987 46 17 March 1987 64 24 March 1987 22 31 March 1987 — 7 April 1987 20 14 April 1987 18 21 April 1987 — 28 April 1987 8 5 May 1987 6 19 May 1987 — 26 May 1987 —
Payment made in week ending Number of £5 weekly payments made 2 June 1987 4 TOTAL 4,351
§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his answer of 18 December 1987,Official Report, column 935, which were the two weeks for which help in the form of severe weather payments was available in the Nottingham area.
§ Mr. ScottExceptionally cold weather payments were available in the Nottingham area for the weeks commencing 12 and 19 January 1987.