Supplementary Benefit

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services> – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 April 1987.

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Photo of Sir Nicholas Lyell Sir Nicholas Lyell Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Security) 12:00, 7 April 1987

In February this year, some 27,000 claimants were receiving supplementary benefit from the two local offices which serve the Leeds, West constituency. The equivalent number for February 1979 was 20,000, but the figures are not strictly comparable because the boundaries have changed.