asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many supplementary benefit claimants live in hostels and are treated as boarders by each of his Department's local offices of Stockton, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Eston and Redcar;
(2) how many supplementary benefit claimants live in private nursing or residential homes and are treated as boarders by each of his Department's local offices of Stockton, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Eston and Redcar;
(3) how many supplementary benefit claimants are being assessed as board and lodgers in each of his Department's local offices of Stockton, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Eston and Redcar.
I regret that the information requested is not collected by individual local offices and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what monitoring procedures he has established in order to assess the effects of the changes to the Supplementary Benefit Single Payment Regulations
| SupplementaryBenefit single payments | ||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) |
| MIS periods | Number of decisions | Number of refusals | Number of awards | Amount paid | Regulation 30 awards included in column (4) | Regulation 30 included in column (5) |
| '000 | '000 | '000 | £ million | '000 | £ million | |
| 27 August 1986 to10 February 1987* | 2,660 | 1,052 | 1,608 | 129 | 20 | 1·6 |
| *Provisional figures. | ||||||