asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide figures for the number of people in Coventry dependent on social security benefits, broken down by category of benefit and age group.

Information is not available for centrally paid benefits, for example, retirement pension, about the number of beneficiaries in any particular locality nor, generally, about the beneficiaries' age groups.The Coventry area is covered by two local offices of the Department, Coventry East and Coventry West, and the latest available information about recipients of various locally administered benefits is as follows:

	Coventry East	Coventry West
Sickness and Invalidity Benefit	3,393	2,886
Maternity Allowance	292	390
Severe Disablement
Allowance (all above figures as at 13.1.87)	543	534
Supplementary Benefit (as at 16.12.86)
(a) beneficiaries over pension age	5,521	5,730
(b) beneficiaries under pension age and required to sign at the Unemployment Benefit Office	10,304	7,565
(c) other beneficiaries under pension age	6,673	5,046

Housing benefit is administered by the local authority and the numbers of recipients in Coventry at 31.3.86 (the latest date for which information is available) were as follows:

	Number
Rent Rebate recipients	18,504
Rent Allowance recipients	8,414
Rate Rebate recipients	154,113
1 Includes local authority tenants who also receive a rent rebate and private tenants who also receive a rent allowance.