§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people in(a) Doncaster and (b) Mexborough areas of South Yorkshire are in receipt of (a) retirement pensions, (b) widows' benefits, (c) unemployment benefit, (d) sickness benefit, (e) invalidity benefit, (f) industrial disablement benefits, (g) industrial death benefit, (h) maternity allowance, (i) non-contributory retirement pension, (j) war pension, (k) attendance allowance and (l) invalid allowance.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardI regret that information is not available in the precise form requested. Nor are local figures held of the numbers of people receiving(a) retirement pensions, (b) widows' benefits, (f) industrial disablement benefits, (g) industrial death benefit, (i) non-contributory retirement pension, (j) war pension, (k) attendance allowance and (l) invalid care allowance.
With the exception of unemployment benefit the table shows, as at 30 June 1989, the latest date for which the information is available, the numbers of sickness/invalidity benefit and maternity allowance claimants at the Department's local offices at Doncaster, East, Doncaster, West and Mexborough which serve the Don Valley constituency although their boundaries are not conterminous.
Doncaster East Doncaster West Mexborough Sickness/Invalidity Benefit1 4,708 6,099 2,261 Maternity Allowance 29 50 4
Unemployed claimants Doncaster Local Authority Area Mexborough Election Ward As at 8 June 1989 14,158 1,015 Source:
100 per cent count of cases in action. The figures quoted may include a number of cases not actually in receipt of benefit. Data are provisional and subject to amendment.
Notes:
1The local office count of cases in action does not distinguish between sickness and invalidity benefit.
2Numbers shown are included in the figure for the Doncaster local authority area.