§ Mr. ChisholmTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people in Scotland currently receive(a) one-parent benefit without any means-tested benefit and (b) one-parent benefit with a means-tested benefit, broken down by each means-tested benefit. [17164]
§ Mr. Andrew MitchellThe information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is set out in the following table:
Recipients of one-parent benefit in Scotland Number1 of recipients Total number receiving one-parent benefit Number receiving one-parent benefit with a means-tested benefit (by benefit)2. 97,000 Income support 38,000 Housing benefit 45,000 Council tax benefit 36,000 1. In Scotland, 34,000 lone parents are in receipt of family credit. It is estimated that the vast majority are also receiving one-parent benefit; however, precise figures are not available.
1Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand.
2It is not possible to provide a breakdown of one-parent benefit recipients between those with and without at least one means-tested benefit because a person can be in receipt of more than one means-tested benefit and not all of the overlaps between benefits can be identified.