§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give, for each client group, a table for rates of income support showing (i) the illustrative figures in the technical annex to the 1985 White Paper, (ii) the illustrative figures uprated by the retail prices index since then, (iii) the illustrative figures uprated by the Rossi index, (iv) the amounts provided to compensate for the 20 per cent. rates or poll tax contribution and (v) the proposed income support rates for April 1990.
§ Mrs. Gillian Shephard[pursuant to her reply, 13 December 1989, c. 669–70]: I regret that the information given for disabled pensioners aged 60 or over was incorrect. The corrected information is in the table.
alcohol in each of the past five years for which figures are available; and what steps he proposes to improve enforcement of the law.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe available information is set out in the table. It is not possible to identify offences of selling tobacco to children separately in the Scottish Home and Health Department's classification of crimes and offences.
Measures are under consideration to facilitate law enforcement on the sale of alcohol to children and to improve controls on off-sales, but it is not yet possible to say what form any relevant provision will take. The problem of access by children to tobacco products is also under consideration, but I am not yet in a position to say what may be the outcome.
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Persons proceeded against for sale of drink to persons aged under 18 Year Number 1984 194 1985 175 1986 212 1987 231 19881 270 1 Provisional.