Supplementary Benefit

Mr. Foulkes
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people in Scotland are receiving supplementary benefit; and what are the comparative  figures for the same time in each of the last 10 years.

Mrs. Chalker
The information in the following table relates to May, or thereabouts, of each year as that is the most recent month in the current year for which the available figures are unlikely to have been affected by seasonal distortion.----------
|1969    |
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|1970    |
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|1971    |
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|1972    |
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|1973 (a)|
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|1974    |
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|1975    |
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|1976    |
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|1977    |
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|1978 (b)|
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|1979    |
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