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Industrial Disablement Benefit

Volume 898: debated on Monday 20 October 1975

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many recipients of industrial disablement benefit in Wales, Scotland, England and the English regions also receive (a) unemployability supplement, (b) special hardship allowance, (c) constant attendance allowance, (d) approved hospital treatment allowance, and (e) exceptionally severe disablement allowance; and what is the amount of expenditure involved for each benefit.

Figures are available only for Great Britain as a whole and are as follows:

BenefitNumbers
(a)unemployability supplement500
(b)special hardship allowance80,000
(c)constant attendance allowance2,600
(d)hospital treatment allowance300
(e)exceptionally severe disablement allowance.800
These allowances are not accounted for separately but the total expenditure on them in the year ending 31st March 1974 was £35 million.