asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what was the total sum of money paid, in the form of unemployment benefit, to male, female and young claimants in the last 12 months to the latest convenient date; and if he will break down this figure in table form to show the amounts paid in each of the English regions;(2) what was the total sum of money paid, in the form of unemployment benefit, to male, female and young claimants in the last 12 months to the latest convenient date in Wales;(3) what was the total sum of money paid, in the form of unemployment benefit, to male, female and young claimants in the last 12 months to the latest convenient date in Scotland.

Member	Organisation
Dr M E Abrams	DHSS Chairman
Professor M Adler	Professor Genito-Urinary Medicine (London University) at the Middlesex Hospital
Professor A L Bloom	Professor of Haematology Welsh National School of Medicine
Dr J D Cash	Consultant Adviser in Blood Transfusion (Scotland)
Dr Marcela Contreras	Director, North London Blood Transfusion Centre
Dr N S Galbraith	Epidemiologist—Director of the PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC)
Professor Alistair Geddes	Consultant Physician, East Birmingham Hospital
Dr Harold Gunson	Director, North Western Blood Transfusion Service, (CA in Blood Transfusion)
Miss Elizabeth Jenner	Nursing representative (St Mary's Hospital)
Dr D B L McClelland	Regional Director, Edinburgh and SE Scotland Blood Transfusion Service
Dr Philip Mortimer	Consultant Virologist in the Virus Reference Laboratory of the Central Public Health Laboratory (nominated by Dr Whitehead)
Dr. D Pereira-Gray	General Medical Practitioner (and CA in General Practice)
Dr A J Pinching	Clinical Immunologist—St Mary's Hospital Medical School
Dr P Rodin	Consultant in Genito-Urinary Medicine (CA in GU Medicine), The London Hospital
Dr R Tedder	Consultant Virologist—the Middlesex Hospital
Dr D A J Tyrrell CBE	Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) Director MRC Common Cold Unit
Professor R Weiss	Institute of Cancer Research (The Chester Beatty Institute)
Mr Richard Wells	Nursing representative (Royal College of Nursing)
Dr J E M Whitehead	Director, Public Health Laboratory Service
Professor A J Zuckerman	Professor of Microbiology (University of London) at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr M Sibellas	DHSS Medical Secretary
Mr T W S Murray	DHSS Administrative Secretary

The total expenditure on unemployment benefit in Great Britain in the financial year 1983–84 was £1,497 million. A breakdown of this figure is available as follows:

England	£1,244 million
Scotland	£172 million
Wales	£81 million

These figures are based on a computer analysis of girocheque encashments. A further analysis to show the amounts paid in each of the English regions could be provided, but only at disproportionate cost, and I regret that the information requested regarding expenditure by sex and age is not available.