HC Deb 30 April 1990 vol 171 c418W
Ms. Quin

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will supply figures for the number of people claiming family credit for each district authority in the counties of(a) Cleveland, (b) Cumbria, (c) Durham, (d) Northumberland and (e) Tyne and Wear; and if he will indicate in each case what percentage this represents of the total eligible to claim family benefit.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

Information is available only in relation to the Department's own local office areas. The latest available information about the number of families receiving family credit who at the time their awards were made were living in the areas covered by the local offices in the counties concerned is as follows.

Number
Ashington 661
Barrow in Furness 482
Berwick upon Tweed 277
Bishop Auckland 929
Blyth 713
Carlisle 701
Chester-le-Street 360
Darlington 855
Durham 691
Eston 208
Gateshead 1,172
Hartlepool 815
Hexham 343
Houghton-le-Spring 294
Jarrow 307
Kendal 296
Middlesbrough 1,264
Newcastle upon Tyne (West) 443
Newcastle (St. James) 796
Newcastle upon Tyne (East) 899
North Shields 683
Penrith 246
Peterlee 264
Redcar 396
Seaham 196
South Shields 555
Stanley 649
Stockton 1,075
Sunderland (North) 1,442
Sunderland (South) 695
Wallsend 428
Whitehaven 299
Workington 422

Information about the total numbers of families eligible for family credit can be obtained only for Great Britain as a whole, and only retrospectively, from family expenditure survey data.