To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will detail the value of (a) claimants and (b) dependants claiming each of the means-tested benefits for which he is responsible.

Table G of the "Households Below Average Income" (copies of which are in the Library) shows the percentage contribution of income-related benefits to the incomes of individuals within households below various percentiles of the income-distribution. Details are also shown of the particular contributions of supplementary benefit and housing benefit. Similar figures for family income supplement cannot be provided on a statistically reliable basis.