§ Mr. Nicholas BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish figures showing, for each class A national insurance benefit and for each means-tested social security benefit, the numbers and proportions of claimants who are(a) women and (b) lone parents, giving the most recent figures.
§ Mr. Portillo[holding answer 18 July 1988]: The figures, in so far as they are available, are as follows:
§ Mrs. Currie[holding answer 22 July 1988]: The information is shown in the tables. Health authority areas were changed in 1974: the data prior to 1974 are not threefore directly comparable with those for 1974 onwards.