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Mr. Meacher
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many, and what proportion, of supplementary benefit and income support claimants in Great Britain were in receipt of benefit because they were unemployed for each year since 1979.
Mr. Jack
The information available for the period is in the table:
| Year | Total number of supplementary benefit/income support claimants thousands | Number of supplementary benefit/income support claimants who were unemployed thousands | Proportion of supplementary benefit/income support claimants who were unemployed |
| 1979 | 2,855 | 566 | 1 in 5·04 |
| 1980 | 3,118 | 854 | 1 in 3·65 |
| 1981 | 3,723 | 1,318 | 1 in 2·82 |
| 1982 | 4,267 | 1,722 | 1 in 2·48 |
| 1983 | 4,349 | 1,826 | 1 in 2·38 |
| 1984 | 4,609 | 1,953 | 1 in 2·36 |
| 1986 | 4,938 | 2,121 | 1 in 2·33 |
| 1987 | 4,896 | 1,957 | 1 in 2·50 |
| 1988 | 4,352 | 1,511 | 1 in 2·88 |
| 1989 | 4,161 | 1,216 | 1 in 3·42 |
| 1990 | 4,180 | 1,063 | 1 in 3·93 |
Note: Figures for claimants have been rounded to the nearest thousand.