HC Deb 20 June 1990 vol 174 cc606-7W
Mr. Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give the number of(a) claimants and (b) benefit units, identifying (i) families and (ii) pensioners on supplementary benefit who received (1) one single payment, (2) two single payments, (3) three single payments and (4) four or more single payments in the year 1985–86 expressed in each as a total and as a proportion of supplementary benefit caseload.

Mr. Scott

Information on the number of pensioners receiving different numbers of single payments is in the Library, in table 19.1 of the supplementary benefit annual statistical inquiry, 1986. The other information is not available.