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Urgent Needs Payments

Volume 83: debated on Thursday 25 July 1985

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people received urgent needs payments in 1984 in each of (a) the London borough of Camden (b) the London borough of Barnet (c) Greater London, and (d) Holborn and St. Pancras.

[pursuant to his reply, 24 July 1985]: The information requested is collected on a local office basis; as local office boundaries are not conterminous with local authorities or parliamentary constituencies, the information is not available in the form requested. The figures show the total number of urgent need decisions made by local offices serving any part of the areas in question in the year up to 9 April 1985.

Offices serving*Single paymentsAwards for living expenses
London borough of Camden5384,270
London borough of Barnet4879
Greater London council area3,09746,769
Constituency of Holborn and St. Pancras48710,933
* These figures include awards and refusals.