§ Mr. BradleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what are the average amounts currently payable to claimants of(a) severe disablement allowance, (b) unemployment benefit and (c) incapacity benefit. [10142]
§ Mr. HealdThe information is in the table:
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£ Average weekly amount of severe disablement Allowance1 44.60 Average weekly amount of unemployment benefit2 49.02 Average weekly amount of incapacity benefit1, 3 83.48 1Figure taken as at 31 May 1995, a small number of clerical cases were excluded from the sample. 2Figure taken as at 11 May 1995. 3Figure is an average of all the rates of incapacity benefit. A breakdown by amounts of short-term and the long-term 1B rates is not currently available. Most recent figures from a 5 per cent. sample of claims to benefits in Great Britain taken from the relevant computer scans.