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Mr. Meacher
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will update his answer of 16 March 1990, Official Report, columns 406–7, concerning the number of staff per 100,000 claimants.
Miss Widdecombe
The total number of staff administering the social security programme per 100,000 receiving benefits for the years 1979–80 to 1990–91 is in the table.
| Number | |
| 1979–80 | 384 |
| 1980–81 | 372 |
| 1981–82 | 353 |
| 1982–83 | 339 |
| 1983–84 | 325 |
| 1984–85 | 311 |
| 1985–86 | 316 |
| 1986–87 | 314 |
| 1987–88 | 326 |
| 1988–89 | 326 |
| 1989–90 | 307 |
| 1990–91 | 295 |