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Social Fund

Volume 177: debated on Wednesday 17 October 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many applications for review were received during the period April 1989 to March 1990 inclusive in respect of (a) social fund community care grants, (b) social fund budgeting loans and (c) social fund crisis loans, by each of his Department's local offices at Eston, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Stockton, and how many of each of these applications for review resulted in revised decisions.

[pursuant to his reply, 23 July 1990, columns 88–89]: Some of the information given in the table was found to have been misinterpreted. The corrected information is as follows:

April 1989 to March 1990
Applications receivedDecisions revised
Eston
Community care grants9823
Budgeting loans25157
Crisis loans94
Hartlepool
Community care grants16338
Budgeting loans27057
Crisis loans93
Middlesbrough
Community care grants569158
Budgeting loans771295
Crisis loans4413
Stockton
Community care grants520164
Budgeting loans561173
Crisis loans176
Redcar
Community care grants12749
Budgeting loans16248
Crisis loans42
Some of the revised decisions will refer to review applications made in a previous period and decisions may not have been made on some of the review applications made in the period shown.