§ Mr. Tony BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many social fund applications are currently outstanding in offices covering the London borough of Newham.
§ Mr. ScottThe latest information available is for January 1990. For the offices serving the London borough of Newham 306 applications were brought forward as uncleared from December 1989. These were made up of 234 loan and 72 grant applications.
§ Mr. Tony BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the current level of refusals for social fund community care grants in London social security offices.
§ Mr. ScottThe number of refusals can be derived from the information on applications processed and awarded which is in the Library.
§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what percentage of income support recipients are now having deductions made from benefit as a result of paying back social fund loans(a) nationally, (b) regionally and (c) in each local Department of Social Security office area.
§ Mr. Scott[holding answer 19 February 1990]: The information requested is in the tables. The percentages have been calculated by referring to provisional data on the number of loans being recovered at the end of January 1990 compared with the number of income support recipients.
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Loans currently being recovered as percentage of income support recipients at national, regional and local office levels Per cent. National 9.2 North East Region 11.39 North West Region 9.9 Midland Region 8.7
Per cent. London North Region 6.07 London South Region 6.24 Wales and South West Region 14.3 Scottish Region 17.1
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North East Region Per cent. Ashington 11.64 Barnsley East 19.71 Barnsley West 12.97 Berwick 5.15 Bishop Auckland 10.27 Blyth 9.08 Bradford East 10.33 Bradford South 11.77 Bradford West 9.44 Bridlington 5.57 Castleford 11.77 Chester-le-Street 8.85 Darlington 10.78 Dewsbury 7.10 Doncaster East 11.65 Doncaster West 11.88 Durham 8.90 Eston 12.16 Gateshead 10.00 Goole 7.74 Grimsby 7.35 Halifax 10.57 Harrogate 5.14 Hartlepool 10.69 Hemsworth 11.01 Hartlepool 5.54 Houghton-le-Spring 13.12 Huddersfield 8.25 Hull East 11.45 Hull West 10.29 Jarrow 14.53 Keighley 7.35 Leeds East 10.95 Leeds North 13.79 Leeds North West 7.91 Leeds South 10.20 Leeds West 9.05 Middlesbrough 17.54 Newcastle East 12.22 Newcastle St. James 12.64 Newcastle West 15.52 Northallerton 5.34 North Shields 10.69 Peterlee 12.16 Pontefract 8.59 Redcar 13.90 Rotherham North 10.43 Rotherham South 10.76 Scarborough 5.95 Scunthorpe 11.32 Seaham 10.30 Sheffield North East 16.89 Sheffield North West 14.35 Sheffield South East 14.94 Sheffield South West 10.50 Skipton 4.19 South Shields 11.97 Stanley 10.26 Stockton 14.25 Sunderland North 17.37 Sunderland South 13.39 Wakefield 10.73 Wallsend 12.12 Wath-on-Dearne 14.01 York 8.21
North West Region Per cent. Accrington 6.85 Ashton under Lyne 7.25 Barrow in Furness 7.64 Belle Vale 14.63 Birkenhead North 13.87 Birkenhead South 11.73 Blackburn 7.62 Blackpool North 3.75 Blackpool South 7.76 Bolton 7.79 Bootle 15.94 Breckfield 10.93 Burnley 8.19 Bury 6.38 Buxton 7.17 Carlisle 8.00 Cheetham 10.10 Chester 8.64 Chorlton 9.55 Crewe 7.87 Crosby 13.22 Edge Hill 13.72 Ellesmere Port 15.10 Failsworth 5.16 Farnworth 12.90 Garston 27.46 Huyton 7.26 Hyde 1.31 Kendal 18.60 Kirkby 12.74 Lancaster 9.08 Leigh 9.19 Liverpool City 17.35 Longsight 2.23 Macclesfield 15.77 Middleton 10.60 Norris Green 15.14 North wich 14.20 Oldham 8.77 Openshaw 10.43 Penrith 3.62 Preston North 8.21 Preston South 5.55 Rochdale 9.60 Rossendale 7.91 Rusholme 10.09 St. Helens 10.36 Sale 6.95 Salford North 8.47 Salford South 8.81 Skelmersdale 12.49 Southport 2.61 Stockport North 9.34 Stockport South 10.32 Toxteth 19.49 Wallasey 11.42 Warrington 9.19 West Derby 12.76 Whitehaven 8.05 Widnes 16.10 Wigan 10.96 Wilmslow 6.30 Workington 7.34 Wythenshawe 13.58
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Midland Region Per cent. Birmingham (Bradford Street) 8.78 Birmingham (Edgebaston) 8.03 15W Birmingham (Erdington) 12.31 Birmingham (Handsworth) 12.30 Birmingham (Ladywood) 11.83 Birmingham (Northfield) 11.99 Birmingham (Perry Barr) 9.57
Per cent. Birmingham (Ravenshurst) 7.44 Birmingham (South Yardley) 8.51 Birmingham (Sparkhill) 1.48 Birmingham (Washwood Heath) 9.95 Boston 4.09 Burton on Trent 6.20 Cannock 6.83 Chesterfield 7.25 Corby 10.98 Coventry (East) 13.75 Coventry (West) 8.02 Derby (Becket Street) 5.68 Derby (Heritage Gate) 6.25 Derby (London Road) 8.32 Dudley North 8.35 Dudley South 6.47 Grantham 5.37 Hereford 6.02 Ilkeston 8.64 Kidderminster 7.69 Leamington 5.41 Leicester (Burleys Way) 9.67 Leicester (Lower Hill) 9.64 Leicester (Norton Street) 6.78 Leicester (Yeoman Street) 11.12 Lichfield 8.22 Lincoln (Newlands) 8.38 Lincoln (Orchard Street) 9.05 Loughborough 6.15 Mansfield 9.18 Newcastle (Staffs) 7.09 Northampton 5.68 Nottingham (Castle Gate) 9.85 Nottingham (David Lane) 10.04 Nottingham (Shakespeare Street) 11.47 Nottingham (Station Street) 8.12 Nuneaton 8.02 Redditch 5.96 Rugby 7.03 Shrewsbury 5.52 Skegness 2.95 Smethwick 7.66 Stafford 5.74 Stoke North 7.80 Stoke South 8.41 Sutton in Ashfield 6.63 Telford 10.97 Walsall East 8.55 Walsall West 11.16 Wellingborough 6.44 West Bromwich 9.24 Wolverhampton North 14.02 Wolverhampton South 10.63 Worcester 6.72 Worksop 7.61
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London North Region Per cent. Acton 5.63 Aylesbury 3.67 Barking 5.69 Barnet 4.43 Basildon 4.32 Bedford 5.97 Braintree 1.04 Bury St. Edmonds 3.88 Cambridge 3.42 Canning Town 11.33 Chelmsford 8.59 Clacton 7.14 Colchester 3.05 Cricklewood 5.78 Diss 19.68 Dunstable 1.81 Ealing 1.11 Edgeware 8.02
Per cent. Edmondton 3.09 Euston 4.69 Finsbury Park 1.42 Grays 8.92 Great Yarmouth 6.72 Hackney 9.36 Harlesdon 10.53 Harlow 3.03 Harrow 3.13 Hemel Hemstead 2.66 Hendon 6.53 Hertford 3.97 Highgate 6.44 High Wycombe 4.17 Hoxton 9.89 Ilford 11.16 Ipswich 5.05 Kings Lynn 4.47 Leystone 6.50 Lowestoft 6.85 Luton 8.36 Milton Keynes 7.86 Neasden 6.23 Norwich (C) 6.10 Norwich (M) 7.71 Notting Hill 8.79 Oxford 7.94 Paddington 3.32 Peterborough 10.17 Plaistow 6.82 Poplar 7.68 Romford 3.88 St. Albans 4.80 Shoreditch 8.73 Southall 8.97 Southend 4.94 Stepney 5.81 Stevenage 6.24 Edmonton 9.56 Thames North 3.21 Tottenham 10.40 Uxbridge 5.58 Walthamstow 6.68 Watford 5.38 Woodgrange Park 9.75 Wood Green 7.33
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London South Region Per cent. Aldershot 6.08 Andover 9.60 Ashford 6.34 Balham 5.43 Basingstoke 7.66 Battersea 5.18 Bexley 9.66 Bloomsbury 4.08 Bognor Regis 7.00 Bracknell 3.19 Brighton 8.64 Brixton 4.15 Bromley 8.56 Camberwell 6.02 Canterbury 3.03 Chatham 2.99 Chelsea 8.17 Chichester 5.01 City 5.69 Crawley 10.38 Croydon 4.92 Crystal Palace 8.42 Dartford 3.94 Dover 12.74 Eastbourne 2.58 Eltham 9.23 Epsom 6.16
Per cent. Fareham 4.24 Folkstone 10.51 Gravesend 6.77 Greenwich Park 12.19 Guildford 8.02 Hastings 3.20 Havant 5.76 Hither Green 9.49 Hounslow 3.16 Hove 4.01 Isle of Wight 7.67 Kennington Park 6.68 Kensington 4.92 Kingston 2.44 Lewes 6.86 Lewisham 3.61 Maidstone 7.15 Mitcham 5.72 New Forest 10.52 New Maiden 6.35 Newbury 5.46 Orpington 3.30 Oval 6.51 Peckham 4.09 Portsmouth North 6.56 Portsmouth South 5.25 Reading 4.10 Redhill 4.74 Sittingbourne 5.25 Slough 4.44 Southampton 2.87 Southwark 6.08 Streatham 4.31 Sutton 6.74 Thames South 3.21 Thanet 4.53 Tunbridge Wells 4.70 Twickenham 4.46 Wandsworth 3.08 Westminster 9.14 Winchester 3.69 Wimbledon 6.98 Woking 5.24 Woolwich 2.75 Worthing 5.54
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Wales and South West region Per cent. Aberdare 14.63 Abertillery 12.50 Aberystwyth 6.12 Ammanford 6.59 Anglesey 8.44 Bargoed 14.01 Barnstaple 5.59 Barry 9.02 Bath 5.73 Blackwood 9.52 Bournemouth 4.84 Bridgend 7.60 Bridgwater 6.80 Bristol Central 8.70 Bristol East 5.81 Bristol Horsfield 8.01 Bristol South 9.10 Bristol West 3.17 Caernarfon 8.36 Caerphilly 19.88 Cardiff Central 9.07 Cardiff East 12.38 Cardiff West 12.50 Carmarthen 6.37 Cheltenham 5.39 Chippenham 5.26 Colwyn Bay 6.85 Cwmbran 8.93
Per cent. Deeside 8.83 Devonport 11.79 Ebbw Vale 10.45 Exeter 6.27 Gloucester 8.94 Haverfordwest 8.62 Launceston 4.13 Llanelli 10.14 Merthyr Tydfil 12.83 Morriston 13.04 Neath 8.32 Newport 11.09 Newtown 5.22 Pembroke Dock 10.80 Penzance 3.50 Plymouth 7.89 Pontypridd 11.60 Poole 4.29 Porth 9.62 Porthmadog/Dolgellau 4.65 Port Talbot 11.45 Tonypandy 13.19 Rhyl 5.95 St. Austell 7.33 Salisbury 7.09 Stroud 4.42 Swansea 11.05 Swindon 7.99 Taunton 5.15 Torbay 5.28 Trowbridge 6.09 Truro 5.32 Weston-Super-Mare 5.46 Weymouth 5.20 Wrexham 8.58 Yeovil 3.98
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Scottish Region Per cent. Aberdeen North 10.16 Aberdeen South 8.71 Airdrie 24.75 Arbroath 8.71 Ayr 14.81 Bathgate 13.77 Bellshill 25.11 Cambletown 10.86 Clydebank 24.47 Coatbridge 21.75 Cowdenbeath 12.37 Cumbernauld 12.36 Dumbarton 21.24 Dumfries 8.82 Dundee East 13.11 Dundee West 13.96 Dunfermline 14.76 East Kilbride 13.46 Edinburgh City 14.44 Edinburgh East 13.25 Edinburgh North 13.45 Edinburgh South 11.35 Edinburgh West 13.85 Elgin 8.18 Falkirk 15.50 Fort William 7.68 Galashiels 8.42 Glasgow Anniesland 26.28 Glasgow Bridgeton 21.36 Glasgow City 21.89 Glasgow Craigton 22.85 Glasgow Cranstonhill 13.27 Glasgow Laurieston 18.36 Glasgow Maryhill 26.19 Glasgow Parkhead 24.14 Glasgow Partick 17.00 Glasgow Provan 30.99
Per cent. Glasgow Rutherglen 23.15 Glasgow South Side 26.41 Glasgow Springburn 26.24 Greenock 19.83 Hamilton 21.45 Inverness 8.67 Irvine 23.60 Johnstone 15.33 Kilmarnock 15.44 Kirkcaldy 12.31 Lerwick 4.34 Leven 12.20 Motherwell 21.09 Oban 7.43 Paisley 18.13 Perth 9.13 Peterhead 10.01 Port Glasgow 24.02 Stirling 12.05 Stornoway 5.18 Stranraer 10.31 Wick 5.81 Note: Calculations based on latest available information on Income Support caseload as at November 1990.