HC Deb 25 July 1990 vol 177 c309W
Mrs. Wise

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, further to the reply to the hon. Member for Preston of 7 March,Official Report, column 682, on recipients of invalid care allowance who also receive income support, if he will publish the corrected figures provided in a letter to the hon. Member by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

The corrected figure of the number of recipients of invalid care allowance who also received income support in May 1988, which I provided in a letter to the hon. Member, is 14,000.

Mrs. Wise

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to the reply of 7 March,Official Report, column 682, on recipients of invalid care allowance who also receive income support, what are the corresponding figures for May 1989.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

The figures requested have been published in "Income Support Statistics Annual Inquiry May 1989", a copy of which is in the Library.