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Mr. Llwyd
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people in Wales have applied for sickness benefit for each month since January 1992; and if he will indicate the total cost of these benefits.
Mr. Scott
Information is not available in the form requested. Available information about benefit claims is in the table and relates to the Benefits Agency's Wales area directorate; the boundaries of which do not correspond exactly with those of Wales. Expenditure on sickness benefit in Great Britain was estimated to be £315 million in the year 1992–93.
| Month | Sickness and Invalidity benefit claims |
| January 1992 | 9,000 |
| February 1992 | 8,000 |
| March 1992 | 8,000 |
| April 1992 | 7,000 |
| May 1992 | 6,000 |
| June 1992 | 7,000 |
| July 1992 | 8,000 |
| August 1992 | 7,000 |
| September 1992 | 8,000 |
| October 1992 | 8,000 |
Month
| Sickness and Invalidity benefit claims
|
| November 1992 | 8,000 |
| December 1992 | 7,000 |
| January 1993 | 8,000 |
| February 1993 | 7,000 |
| March 1993 | 8,000 |
| April 1993 | 7,000 |