HC Deb 21 March 1997 vol 292 c1022W
Mr. Kirkwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the annual amount of benefit currently forgone by eligible claimants who are entitled to social security benefits but who do not claim in the constituencies of Roxburgh and Berwickshire and of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale. [21536]

Mr. Burt

The information is not available. Latest national estimates of unclaimed income-related benefits are available from the publication "Income-Related Benefits Estimates of Take-Up in 1994–95", copies of which are available in the Library.