§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will set out his Department's management statistics for the total number of claimants on income support, plus separately their partners and dependants, for each month since January 1990.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe information requested is not available. Liveload figures based on May 1990 annual statistical enquiry, the latest date for which information is available, are as follows.
Number Total number of claimants 4,180,000 Total number of partners 691,000 Total number of dependent children 2,045,000 Source: Annual Statistical Enquiry 1990.