Benefits

Mr. Ralph Howell
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the change, between February and May 1982, in terms of (a) numbers and (b) percentages of the total number of those unemployed, in the totals of those persons who are unemployed and who are in receipt of (i) unemployment benefit only, (ii) unemployment and supplementary benefit, (iii) supplementary benefit only, and (iv) neither supplementary nor unemployment benefit.

Mr. Newton
The information requested is as follows:-----------------------
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|1980–81              |
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|Contributory benefits|
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|Means-tested benefits|
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|1982–83              |
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|Contributory benefits||
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|Means-tested benefits||
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