HC Deb 11 January 2001 vol 360 c610W
Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many pensioners in(a) Inverclyde and (b) Scotland receive the minimum income guarantee. [144498]

Mr. Rooker

There are around 167,500 recipients of the minimum income guarantee in Scotland, with some 3,600 in Inverclyde local authority area.

Notes:

1. Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling error.

2. Pensioners are defined as where the claimant and/or partner are aged 60 or over.

3. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred.

4. Cases are allocated to each Parliamentary Constituency by matching the postcode against the 2000 version 1 ONS Postcode Directory.

Source:

Income Support Quarterly Statistical Enquiry, August 2000.

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