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Mr. Field
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will update to May 1978 the answer given to the hon. Member for Birkenhead,Official Report, 21 May, c.49–50.
Mrs. Chalker
[pursuant to her reply, 27 July 1979, c. 668]: In May 1979, 564,000 unemployed persons—46 per cent. of all the registered unemployed—were receiving supplementary benefit.