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Mr. Frank Field
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the number of unemployed claimants drawing (a) unemployment benefit, (b) unemployment benefit and supplementary benefit and (c) supplementary benefit only in 1957, 1979 and the latest available date.
Mr. Lyell
The available information is given in the table.
| Unemployment benefit only | Unemployment benefit and national assistance/1 supplementary benefit | National assistance/ supplementary benefit | |
| November. 1957 | 2153,000 | 235,O0O | 46,000 |
| November. 1979 | 387,000 | 80,000 | 472,000 |
| May 1986 | 732,000 | 194,000 | 1,684,000 |
| 1 Supplementary benefit replaced national assistance in 1966. | |||
| 2 Estimates. | |||