§ Mr. RowlandsTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the average value of benefit to those in receipt of invalidity benefit in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney and Wales.
§ Mr.ScottOn 4 April 1992, the latest date for which information is available, the average weekly amount of invalidity benefit for recipients in Wales was £75.431. Information for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney is not available.
Note:1 Based on a per cent. sample of claimants in Great Britain.
§ Mr. RowlandsTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the number of existing recipients of invalidity benefit in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney who will be disqualified under the new capacity test.
§ Mr. ScottNumbers cannot be reliably estimated at this stage, but our current estimate is that around 200,000 of the people who initially transfer to incapacity benefit from invalidity benefit may fail to satisfy the test within the first two years. This estimate has not been broken down by district.