asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people in the Leeds metropolitan district council area have been in receipt of (a) supplementary benefit, (b) invalidity benefit and (c) housing benefit for each of the last five years.
[pursuant to his reply, 10 February 1987, c. 210]: The information is as follows:
| Number of beneficiaries (thousands) | |||||
| 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | |
| Supplementary benefit | 66 | 68 | 69 | 69 | 1 |
| Invalidity benefit2 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 13 |
| Housing benefit3 | 46 | 51 | 101 | 98 | 99 |
| 1 Figures not available. | |||||
| 2 Separate figures for invalidity benefit are not available. Figures supplied include sickness benefit cases, and for 1983 and 1984 also | |||||
include non-contributory invalidity benefit cases. The figures are based on management returns from the five social security offices in Leeds which between them cover most of the Leeds Metropolitan District Council area but which are not exactly conterminous with it.
3 Figures for 1982 and 1983 do not include cases which received help through supplementary benefit before housing benefit was fully implemented in April 1983.