asked the Secretary of State for the Social Services if she will publish in the Official Report a table showing the numbers of persons in Scotland in receipt of national assistance and supplementary benefits for the years 1948, 1951, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 1974 and 1975, detailing those figures under the headings (1) retirement pensioners and national insurance widows 60 years of age and over, (2) others over pension age, (3) unemployed with national insurance benefit, (4) unemployed without national insurance benefit, (5) sick and disabled with national insurance benefit, (6) sick and disabled without national insurance benefit, (7) women under 60 years of age with dependent children, (8) national insurance widows under 60 years of age, (9) others, (10) total persons receiving supplementary benefit, (11) total number of claimants
| PERSONS IN SCOTLAND RECEIVING REGULAR WEEKLY PAYMENTS OF SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFIT IN NOVEMBER EACH YEAR | |||||||||
| Thousands | |||||||||
| 1962 | 1965 | 1966 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975§ | |
| Supplementary benefits | 211 | 208 | 265 | 297 | 322 | 323 | 289 | 284 | 276 |
| Supplementary pensions | 115 | 124 | 173 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 182 | 178 | 158 |
| Retirement pensioners and N.I. widows over 60 years | 93 | 105 | 153 | 167 | 173 | 173 | 172 | 167 | 148 |
| Others over pension age | 23 | 19 | 20 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 |
| Supplementary allowances | 96 | 84 | 91 | 112 | 137 | 138 | 107 | 107 | 117 |
| Unemployed with N.I. benefitst† | 15 | 5 | 9* | 14 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 14 |
| Unemployed without N.I. benefits | 24 | 20 | 22 | 32 | 49 | 55 | 38 | 37 | 45 |
| Sick and disabled with N.I. benefits | 20 | 19 | 20 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 8 |
| Sick and disabled without N.I. benefits | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 19 |
| N.I. widows under 60 years | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| Women with dependent children | 10 | 12 | 13 | 20 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 24 | 26‡ |
| Others | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| * The component parts of the unemployed were estimated for 1966. | |||||||||
| † Before 1972 figures for the unemployed may include some where no benefit was paid for the week to which the count relates. | |||||||||
| ‡ For 1975 the figures for women with dependent children include lone fathers as well. | |||||||||
| § In 1975 the count took place in December, and the figures are provisional. | |||||||||