HC Deb 17 October 1989 vol 158 c100W
Mr. Nigel Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give the latest figures for the number of people on income support who had direct deductions for(a) electricity and (b) gas.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

The number of cases with deductions for electricity and gas is as follows:

Number
Electricity 152,000
Gas 152,000

Where a person has deductions for both electricity and gas, they are included in both figures.

SourceAnnual Statistical Enquiry, May 1988.