HC Deb 08 February 1999 vol 325 cc72-3W
Mr. Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list(a) the benefit arrangements for pregnant women below 18 years of age, (b) the special dietary provisions organised by social services for pregnant women and (c) the criteria for eligibility for (a) and (b). [69668]

Angela Eagle

The information is in the tables.

2. Figures at May 1997, the latest date for which figures for all three benefits are available.

3. Sample size 5 per cent.

4. Figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand.

5. Pensioners are defined as single people aged 60 or over, or couples where one or both members is aged 60 or over.

6. Information refers to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple.

7. The information excludes second adult rebate cases.

8. There is an overlap in the figures as many people receive Income Support, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit.

Source:

1. Income Support Statistics Quarterly Enquiry, May 1997.

2. Housing Benefit Management Information System, annual 1 per cent. Sample inquiries for recipients with and without Income Support/Jobseeker's Allowance (Income-based), taken at the end of May 1997.

At August 1998, the most recent date for which information on Income Support recipients is available, there were 1,651 thousand pensioners receiving Income Support.