To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the number of unemployed claimants and lone parents on supplementary benefit or income support receiving financial help with mortgage interest each year since 1979; and what each of these numbers was as a percentage of total unemployed claimants and of total lone parents.
Estimates are given in the table.
Unemployed claimants
| Lone parent claimants
| ||||
Year
| Number with mortgage
| As a percentage of all unemployed claimants
| Number with mortgage
| As a percentage of all lone parent claimants
| As a percentage of total lone parents
|
| 1986 | 200,000 | 10 | 50,000 | 9 | 5 |
| 1987 | 160,000 | 9 | 58,000 | 9 | 6 |
| 1988 | 114,000 | 8 | 62,000 | 9 | 6 |
| 1989 | 88,000 | 8 | 67,000 | 9 | 16 |
| 1990 | 88,000 | 9 | 77,000 | 10 | — |
1 Based on a provisional estimate of total lone parents. | |||||
Notes:
(1) No Enquiry was undertaken in 1985.
(2) Figures for numbers of claimants are rounded to the nearest 1,000.
(3) Figures from 1983 onwards are not comparable with earlier figures because Enquiry data was collected on a different basis.
(4) Supplementary benefit was replaced by income support in 1988.
(5) No estimate of the number of lone parents is available for 1990.
Source: Income Support Annual Statistical Enquiries.
Population Trends 65.