HC Deb 15 June 1989 vol 154 c529W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the items of personal data held in the new computerised departmental central index, the size of the index, and how many accesses were made to the index over the last two months.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Each record on the departmental central index holds up to five items of information relating to one person and the index currently holds around 60 million records. The information held is the person's name, date of birth, address, sex and date of death where appropriate. Over the last two months, 1,503,485 trace and inquiry accesses were made of the system.

Community charge benefit: net income at which minimum CCB of 50 pence is payable
Local authority Annual community charge Single under 25 working Single 25 to 59 working Single pensioner aged 60–74 not working Pensioner couple aged 60–74 not working Couple two children under 11 working
Alyn and Deeside 216.00 51.23 58.73 64.93 112.84 135.79
Colwyn 224.00 52.05 59.55 65.75 114.48 137.43
Delyn 215.00 51.13 58.63 64.83 112.63 135.58
Glyndwr 185.00 48.05 55.55 61.75 106.48 129.43
Rhuddlan 201.00 49.70 57.20 63.40 109.76 132.71
Wrexham Maelor 196.00 49.18 56.68 62.88 108.74 131.69
Carmarthen 135.00 42.93 50.43 56.63 96.22 119.17
Ceredigion 146.00 44.05 51.55 57.75 98.48 121.43
Dinefwr 119.00 41.29 48.79 54.99 92.94 115.89
Llanelli 150.00 44.46 51.96 58.16 99.30 122.25
Preseli Pembrokeshire 136.00 43.03 50.53 56.73 96.43 119.38
South Pembrokeshire 166.00 46.11 53.61 59.81 102.58 125.53
Blaenau Gwent 124.00 41.80 49.30 55.50 93.97 116.92
Islwyn 135.00 42.93 50.43 56.63 96.22 119.17
Monmouth 187.00 48.26 55.76 61.96 106.89 129.84
Newport 204.00 50.00 57.50 63.70 110.38 133.33
Torfaen 168.00 46.31 53.81 60.01 102.99 125.94
Aberconwy 193.00 48.87 56.37 62.57 108.12 131.07