Supplementary Benefit

HC Deb 06 March 1989 vol 148 cc452-3W

Mr. Darling

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will provide the live load figures of supplementary benefit for each of the following categories (1) unemployed claimants (E load), (2) claimants not required to register for work (A load) and (3) pensioners for each of the six local offices in Lothian region for the years April 1980 to April 1988.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The information is as follows:

Supplementary Benefit Live Load	(1)	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987
	P	2,369	2,434	2,512	2,477	2,632	2,745	2,955	3,106
	E	1,630	2,744	3,301	3,578	3,964	4,120	4,877	4,835
Edinburgh West ILO	A	1,548	1,759	2,055	2,318	2,603	2,831	3,194	3,406
	P	2,874	2,972	3,021	2,895	2,881	2,814	2,793	2,966
	E	2,353	4,702	5,825	6,701	6,413	6,306	6,387	5,746
Bathgate ILO	A	1,743	2,072	2,933	3,590	3,980	4,273	4,628	4,928
	P	2,825	2,980	3,149	2,885	3,334	3,109	3,368	3,535

Note (1)

E = unemployed claimants.

A = claimants not required to register for work.

P = pensioners.

Source: 100 per cent. count of cases in action, which include a number of cases where benefit payment has ceased but other action is continuing.