HC Deb 22 June 2000 vol 352 c254W
Mr. Webb

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will set out for each of the last three years before its abolition(a) the total amount spent on the single payments scheme and (b) the amount spent on each major category of item for which such grants were available. [125285]

Angela Eagle

Expenditure on the single payment scheme for the last three years before its abolition is given in the Annual Report on the Social Fund 1988–89.

Statistical samples of single payments, by item, are given in the Supplementary Benefit Annual Statistical Enquiries, 1986 and 1987.

The publications are available in the Library.