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Single Payment

Volume 132: debated on Tuesday 3 May 1988

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give for his Department's offices at Cumbernauld (a) the number of single payment applications and (b) the number granted in each week for the first three months of the current year.

The Department has only one office in Cumbernauld. Information in the form requested is not collected and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Figures are however collected for the numbers of decisions made on single payment claims which represent full or partial awards of supplementary benefit in respect of the items claimed, and the numbers of decisions to refuse payment. These are given in the table for the first three complete four-weekly statistical periods in 1988. The figures are provisional and subject to revision.

Full awardsPartial awards RefusalsValue £
13 January to 9 February6443529942,864
10 February to 7 March1,1273057679,627
8 March to 8 April19192731569,150
1 Statistical period lengthened to align with the end of the supplementary benefit scheme.