§ Mr. MaxtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many single-pensioner households in Scotland are in receipt or have been in receipt of housing benefit for each of the past five years, expressed as a percentage of all single-pensioner households and as a numerical total.
§ Mrs. Gillian Shephard[pursuant to her reply, 7 March 1990, c. 679]: I regret that a correction is necessary.
The estimate for 1988 of 250,000 single people in Scotland aged 60 or over in receipt of housing benefit represents 51.7 per cent. of the total number of Scots in this group and not 11.3 per cent. as shown in the published reply.