§ Baroness Jegerasked Her Majesty's Government:
What payments were made from the social fund during April in the form of grants and loans, and what proportion of the annual budget this represents.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Lord Skelmersdale)We shall be placing in the Library details of the operation of the social fund for each local office. These data will comprise the outstanding balances in the loans budget and community care grants budget and the numbers and the financial amounts of applications and payments for crisis loans, budgeting loans and community care grants. This information will be provided monthly as soon as the data have been collated. I will write to the noble Baroness when the first month's information becomes available.