§ Mr. HumeTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the social fund budget for each social security office in Northern Ireland in each of the last four years, the numbers of(a) loans and (b) community care grants applied for, the numbers awarded and their total values.
§ Mr. AncramResponsibility for the subject in question has been delegated to the Social Security Agency under its chief executive, Mr. Alec Wylie. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from A. Wylie to Mr. John Hume, dated 10 February 1994:
As Chief Executive of the Social Security Agency I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on Social Fund budgets, applications and awards.The information is not held in the form you have requested but I have set out the available data in the attached tables. Details for each Social Security Office can only be supplied for the period 1 April 1989 to 31 March 1991. From April 1991 the Social Fund has been managed on a District basis and I am therefore providing information from that date for each District.You may be interested to know that information about the budget allocations, the number of crisis loans, budgeting loans and community care grants applications processed, the number of awards and the amount paid is available in the Library under Social Fund Data. The figures are updated on a monthly basis.
Whole-time equivalent nursing staff employed in Northern Ireland health and personal social services and nurses in training Nurse type September 1988 September 1989 September 1990 September 1991 September 1992 September 1993 Registered Nurses 12,222.72 12,199.94 12,158.44 12,217.62 12,098.54 11,930.78 Unregistered Nurses 2,777.05 2,832.26 2,947.19 3,190.92 3,274.22 3,343.23 Student Nurses 2,865.37 2,711.00 2,649.60 2,050.60 1,153.56 351.80 Project 2000 — — — 466.00 1,098.00 1,664.00 Notes:
- 1. Figures include Midwives
- 2. Project 200 are not employees