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Mr. Livsey
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what measures he proposes to implement to increase the take-up of attendance allowance among members of the social security disabled persons register.
Mr. Scott
We have no plans to mount such a campaign. The number of people receiving attendance allowance has more than doubled from 306,000 in 1979 to 763,000 in 1989.
Mr. Livsey
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the percentage of people on the social security disabled persons register currently not receiving the attendance allowances entitled to them; and how much money the unclaimed benefit amounts to.
Mr. Scott
Information is not kept in a form which would enable such a comparison to be made.