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Mr. Frank Field
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many supplementary benefit claimants received the estate rate heating addition (a) at the lower rate and (b) at the higher rate in each year since 1984.
Mr. Portillo
The information requested is not available for all of the years requested. Figures from the annual statistical inquiry for 1984 and 1986 are as follows. There was no statistical inquiry in 1985 and the 1987 figures a re not yet available.
| Estate rate heating additions | ||
| Numbers 000s | ||
| December 1984 | February 1986 | |
| Lower rate | 39 | 51 |
| Higher rate | 10 | 13 |