asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the cost of advertising of the £5 cold climate allowance; what is the estimated cost of administration of the scheme (a) in the current year and (b) in January 1987; and what other expenditure has been incurred, apart from the cost of the payments themselves.
[pursuant to his reply, 29 January 1987, c. 367]: The full cost of advertising and administering the exceptionally cold weather scheme in the current year will be assessed at the end of the winter period. However, total advertising costs for January 1987 were about £670,000.Additional manpower in the form of 300 overtime man-years was allocated to local offices to help process cold weather claims at a cost of some £4 million. Extra travel and subsistence in connection with overtime working and increased postage costs were also incurred.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, how much was spent by his Department on advertising the availability of exceptionally severe weather payments (a) in 1986 and (b) so far in the current year in (i) Scotland, (ii) Strathclyde and (iii) Greenock and Port Glasgow.
[pursuant to his reply, 12 February 1987, c. 341]: The availability of exceptionally severe weather payments in 1986 was advertised on a national basis only, at a cost of £267,000.
| TABLE I Income under Section 58 of The National Health Service Act 1977 | ||||||||||
| 1983–84 | 1984–85 | 1985–86 | ||||||||
| Regions | a | b | c | d | a | b | c | d | a | d |
| £ | £000 | £000 | per cent. | £ | £000 | £000 | per cent. | £ | per cent. | |
| Northern | 802 | 1 | 1 | — | 1,560 | 2 | 2 | — | 11,492 | — |
| Yorkshire | 6,972 | 8 | 8 | — | 10,819 | 11 | 11 | — | 49,638 | — |
| Trent | 18,386 | 20 | 20 | — | 40,955 | 43 | 43 | — | 73,711 | 0·01 |
| East Anglian | 16,068 | 18 | 18 | — | 53,685 | 57 | 56 | 0·01 | 64,943 | 0·01 |
| North West Thames | 11,941 | 13 | 13 | — | 27,535 | 29 | 29 | — | 36,864 | — |
| North East Thames | 4,839 | 5 | 5 | — | 5,800 | 6 | 6 | — | 12,778 | — |
| South East Thames | 17,107 | 19 | 19 | — | 57,069 | 61 | 60 | 0·01 | 164,154 | 0·01 |
| South West Thames | 9,748 | 11 | 11 | — | 29,979 | 32 | 32 | — | 63,228 | 0·01 |
| Wessex | 11,310 | 12 | 13 | — | 28,686 | 30 | 30 | — | 68,697 | 0·01 |
In January 1987 press and radio advertising was undertaken on a national basis at a cost of £400,000 and advertisments for insertion in local newspapers, leaflets and posters were produced and distributed centrally at an approximate cost of £68,000. Scotland also undertook its own advertising at a cost of about £54,700.
In addition, local advertising was undertaken, for which the estimated costs for January 1987, are as follows:
£
| |
| Scotland | 9,000 |
| Strathclyde | 4,000 |
| Greenock and Port Glasgow | 500 |