To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list, for both of his local department offices in Greenock and Port Glasgow how many claims for industrial injuries disablement benefit were lodged during each of the past six years; how many had their claims accepted; and what has been the total amount paid out in such benefits.
Figures relating to the number of claims accepted and the amount paid in benefit are not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost, as could figures for the number of claims made at Greenock before April 1988. Such information as is available is in the table.
| Claims received | ||
| April | Greenock ILO | Port Glasgow ILO |
| 1990–91 | 184 | 194 |
| 1989–90 | 1,107 | 935 |
| 1988–89 | 30 | 86 |
| 1987–88 | 2— | 268 |
| 1986–87 | 2— | 509 |
| 1985–86 | 2— | 190 |
| 1984–85 | 2— | 159 |
| 1 Figures available to December 1990 only. | ||
| 2 Not available. | ||
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what information he has on the acquisition and ownership of consumer goods by pensioners in 1974, 1979 and 1990.
[pursuant to her reply, 11 December 1990, column 379]: The following information was incorrect:
| Percentage of pensioner households with goods | |
| Goods | 1974 |
| Telephone | 32·0 |
Percentage of pensioner households with goods
| |
| Goods | 1974
|
| Telephone | 34.0 |