To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how much money has been allocated for loans and grants under the social fund for 1990–91 in each district council area of Wales;(2) if he will publish the numbers of successful claims for
(a) grants and (b) loans under the social fund as a percentage of the total number of applicants for each, in every district council area of Wales in 1990;
(3) of the successful social fund applications for (a) grants and (b) loans, how many were allocated to (i) pensioners, (ii) single parents, (iii) disabled people, (iv) families and (v) single people for each district council area in Wales during 1990;
(4) how much money was (a) allocated and (b) utilised as (i) loans and (ii) grants under the social fund in each district council area in Wales during 1990; and in each instance what amount of money was set aside for cases which are pending in 1990–91.
Information is not collected according to district council areas. Statistics for all local offices of the Department on (a) allocations for loans and grants, (b) applications processed and awards made, and (c) expenditure, are in the Library.Awards are made from the year's budget in which they are paid, not the budget for the date of application.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many of those in receipt of income support are having deductions made to the repayment of social fund loans; and what is the average level of repayments by quintile to each of his Department's offices in Derbyshire.
The table shows the number of applicants repaying social fund loans at the end of November 1990. It is not possible to provide quintile figures on repayments.
| Number | |
| Chesterfield | 1,338 |
| Derby (Becket Street) | 630 |
| Derby (Heritage Gate) | 394 |
Number
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| Derby (London Road) | 980 |
| Ilkeston | 646 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what percentage of those in receipt of income support are having deductions made for the repayment of social fund loans in each of his Department's offices in Derbyshire.
The information provided is for the quarter ending in November 1990.
| Per cent. | |
| Chesterfield | 7·6 |
| Derby (Becket Street) | 5·4 |
| Derby (Heritage Gate) | 6·2 |
| Derby (London Road) | 7·8 |
| Ilkeston | 9·4 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many local offices in Nottingham and the United Kingdom are currently giving community care grants from the social fund to (a) high priority applications only, (b) high and medium priority applications only and (c) high, medium and low priority applications.
The information requested is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.