§ Ms JowellTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the numbers of owner-occupiers receiving help with mortgage interest payments through income support in 1994–95.
§ Mr. Roger EvansThe latest available information is that 548,000 income support claimants are receiving help with their mortgage interest payments.
Source: Income support statistics quarterly inquiry February 1994.
§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what proposals he has to transfer to local authorities responsibility for the funding of income support claimants in care or nursing homes who have preserved entitlements to benefits.
§ Mr. Roger EvansWe have no plans to do so.
§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans he has for alterations in industrial injury schemes which will affect the interests of actual or potential sufferers from asbestosis.
§ Mr. HagueNone, but under the long-term review of social security expenditure each part of the social security programme is being examined to ensure that the objectives are right for the 1990s and beyond.