§ Dr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many and what percentages of income support claimants aged under 60 years are repaying social fund budgeting loans and/or crisis loans by deductions from their benefit payments in(a) Greenock and Port Glasgow, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland as a whole; and what is the average repayment in terms of a proportion of their income.
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§ Mr. ScottThe table shows the number of social fund loans being recovered from income support recipients aged under 60 at the end of August 1990 and the percentage of recipients in that age group that the figure represents.
Number of recoveries Percentage of income support recipients under 60 Greenock 2,163 19.6 Port Glasgow 1,062 32.4 Strathclyde 57,866 28.2 Scotland 83,681 24.0