§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what were the total annual amounts paid in supplementary benefit, income support from April 1988, and board and lodging payments to elderly people of limited and no means living in private or voluntary residential care and nursing homes in each year from 1979–80 to 1989–90(a) at current prices and (b) at 1989–90 prices.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardThe information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.