Mr Major’s Written Parliamentary Answer on Supplementary Benefit – 14 April 1986

Below is the text of Mr Major’s written Parliamentary Answer on Supplementary Benefit on 14th April 1986.

Mr. Wareing Asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what proportion of supplementary benefit claimants at the Westminster office of his Department in Regency street, London, are normally permanently resident in (a) Liverpool and (b) Merseyside; what are the numbers involved; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Major I regret this information is not available.

Mr. Leighton Asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many children in the London borough of Newham are in families on supplementary benefit now; and what were the comparable figures in 1979.

Mr. Major In the year ended December 1984, the latest for which information is available, there were approximately 13,000 children in families on supplementary benefit in the London borough of Newham. A comparable figure for 1979 is not available.