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Fund Holding
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health in what circumstances fund-holding general practitioner practices are permitted to pool budgets for extra-contractual referrals with their local district health authority so as to ensure equity of treatment for patients of fund- holding and non-fund-holding general practitioners.
Dr. Mawhinney : General practitioner fund holders do not have a separate budget for extra-contractual referrals. All purchases made by general practitioner fund holders are subject to contracts. In their budgets, fund holders receive only their patients' fair share of national health service resources.
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what criteria funds are awarded to fund-holding general practitioner practices (a) in their initial year of operation and (b) in subsequent years.
Dr. Mawhinney : The criteria for awarding funds to general practitioner fund holders are set out in "General Practice Fundholding : Guidance on Setting Budgets for 1993-94", a copy of which is available in the Library.
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list, geographically by district health authority area, the name and address of each fund-holding general practitioner practice, the date upon which the practice achieved fund-holding status, the amount of money awarded to the practice in 1993-94 for the purchase of
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services covered by the fund-holding regulations, the number of patients on the practice's list on the day that its funding was allocated, and the amount of funding per capita awarded to each practice for services covered by the fund-holding regulations.Dr. Mawhinney : This information is not available centrally.
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what average level of funding per capita was allocated in 1993-94 to fund-holding general practitioner practices in (a) England, (b) each regional health authority area and (c) each district health authority area to enable fund- holding practices to purchase those services covered by the fund-holding regulations.
Dr. Mawhinney : The average level of funding allocated to general practitioner fund holders per capita in England in 1993-94 was £152. The average level of funding allocated to GP fund holders per capita by regional health authority in 1993-94 is shown in the table.
|£
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Northern |166
Yorkshire |163
Trent |141
East Anglia |156
North West Thames |156
North East Thames |128
South East Thames |154
South West Thames |139
Wessex |153
Oxford |134
South Western |169
West Midlands |156
Mersey |163
North Western |143
The average level of funding allocated to GP fund holders per capita by district health authority is not available centrally.
Private Nursing Homes
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will consider holding centrally information of bed numbers in newly registered private nursing homes and residential care homes ; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Bowis : We have no plans to do so.
Community Health Councils
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proposals she is currently considering for changing the name of community health councils ; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action she is currently considering in respect of the future status and influence of community health councils in respect of NHS trusts; and if she will make a statement.
Dr. Mawhinney : The role of community health councils is to represent the interests of the public. Many CHCs have developed effective working relationships with trusts which they use to carry out this role. We are interested in the spread of this good practice.
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Extra-contractual Referrals
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list by (a) regional health authority and (b) district health authority the number of extra-contractual referrals that were refused for (i) the last 12 months and (ii) 24 months; on what grounds each was refused; and if she will make a statement.
Dr. Mawhinney : This information is not available centrally. The grounds on which an extra-contractual referral can be refused are clearly laid out in "Guidance on Extra-Contractual Referrals" (EL(92)60), copies of which are available in the Library.
Overseas Staff and Premises
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the cost for the current financial year of her Department having (a) premises and (b) personnel overseas; and what were the comparable figures for (a) 12, (b) 24, (c) 36 and (d) 48 months ago.
Dr. Mawhinney : The Department does not hold data relating to the cost of staff based overseas for the financial years 1989-90, 1990-91 and 1991-92. However, during 1992-93 the Department spent a total of £215,362 on overseas personnel. During the current financial year the Department has spent a total of £118,386 to date. These figures relate to the salary and travel and subsistence costs of staff to overseas postings. The Department does not have seconded premises overseas.
Homelessness
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make it her policy to monitor the provision of community care services for homeless people.
Mr. Bowis : The social services inspectorate is currently carrying out a study in a sample of local authority areas on the way in which community care and housing policies are being co-ordinated. This will specifically address the provision of services for homeless people.
Patients (Spending)
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the revenue spending on in and out-patients by each authority in England in 1991-92.
Mr. Sackville : This information is not available centrally on a purchaser basis.
Assessment Process
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to provide new guidelines to local authorities on their duties under the assessment process outlined in section 47 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.
Mr. Bowis : Guidance setting out the legal framework within which authorities work has already been issued. Copies of the guidance, CI(92)34, are available in the Library.
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Deaths (Inquiry)
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will now set up a public inquiry into the mismanagement of patients at Birmingham orthopaedic, Stafford and Doncaster maternity hospitals and the resultant deaths.
Mr. Sackville : We have no plans to do so.
Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Services
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will publish monitoring information collected during her Department's review of drug and alcohol rehabilitation services.
Mr. Bowis : The report carried out for the Department by Goldsmith's college was published on 28 July and a copy was placed in the Library.
Caesarean Operations
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will consider having the numbers of caesarean operations to deliver babies collated centrally ; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Sackville : The numbers of caesarean operations have been collected centrally since 1973. I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Falkirk, East (Mr. Connarty) on 1 March at columns 29- 30 for the latest available figures.
Charitable Trust Funds
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action she intends to take to ensure that the charitable trust funds held by regional health authorities by reason of the distribution of the national fund in 1974 are passed over to hospitals for the benefit of patients.
Mr. Sackville : None. This is a matter for the trustees of the charitable funds concerned.
Family Planning Services
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will provide details of the costs of family planning services in England in each year since 1990-91.
Mr. Sackville : Estimated total expenditure on national health service family planning services in England was £109.2 million in 1990 -91 and £136.2 million in 1991-92, the latest year for which figures are available. The two figures are not directly comparable because of new reporting arrangements following the national health service reforms.
Rampton Hospital
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement in respect of the conditions and environment of patients at Rampton special hospital after her visit to the hospital on 3 August.
Mr. Bowis : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State did not visit Rampton hospital on 3 August but I did so on 30 September. I was impressed with the advances which have been made in the care and treatment of patients and
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with the commitment and dedication of the members of the staff and management whom I met. The refurbished ward which I opened, providing accommodation for 20 mentally ill men in individual rooms with their own washing and toilet facilities, represents a significant improvement in the living conditions of these patients.With the Special Hospitals Service Authority we are committed to achieving and maintaining the highest standards of care at Rampton and the other two special hospitals, and to strengthening their professional links with local and regional national health service psychiatric services. Staff education has a key part to play in this and I was glad to have the opportunity following my visit of speaking at the signing of the agreement between Ashworth and Rampton hospitals and Sheffield Hallam university to designate the hospitals as joint colleges of the university.
Hospital Treatment (Bosnia)
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what central Government funds were used for the cost of hospital treatment of Bosnian war victims ; what is the total cost to date ; what other uses the funds have been put to during the current financial year ; what is the total amount of the reserves left ; and if she will make a statement.
Dr. Mawhinney : These costs have been met from moneys voted by Parliament for the national health service, out of the Department of Health budget for paying provider units the costs of treatments to all overseas visitors exempt from NHS charges. The total budget, the use of which is restricted to this specific purpose, is £12 million for this financial year of which about £6.1 million has been spent. To date, costs of treating Bosnians amount to £517,000 in 1992-93 and 1993-94.
Top Ten Hospitals
Mr. Milligan : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the top 10 hospitals in Britain measured by their success rate in (a) general surgery and (b) heart surgery.
Mr. Sackville : Information on surgical success rates in hospitals is not available centrally. A system of medical audit is in place in every hospital, which provides confidential peer review by doctors of clinical standards and practices.
Hospital Closures
Mr. Waller : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if it is her policy to receive delegations from community health councils which have formally objected to hospital closures.
Dr. Mawhinney : Formal objections to hospital closures should be made to the district health authority.
Where the regional health authority supports the district health authority, it will refer the matter to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for a final decision.
Whether we receive a delegation from the community health council will depend on the view we take of the particular closure, taking account of all the relevant facts.
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Capital Allocation
Ms Primarolo : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to change the system of capital allocation.
Mr. Sackville : A steering group has been developing a new system for allocating captial to respond to changes in the new national health service. The group's proposals will need further development in the light of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State's statement on 21 October. Allocations for 1994-95 will be based on existing arrangements.
Anencephaly
Ms Primarolo : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the number of preventable cases of anencephaly and spina bifida caused by insufficient folic acid in the diet.
Mr. Sackville : This information is not available. An expert advisory group report on folic acid and the prevention of neural tube defects, published in December 1992, confirmed evidence that women who increase their intake of folic acid when planning a pregnancy can significantly reduce the risk of having a baby with neural tube defect. A copy of the report is available in the Library.
Hearing Loss
Ms Primarolo : To ask the Secretary of State for Health which units in this country provide psychiatric services for people with hearing loss ; and what plans she has to continue supraregional funding for these units.
Mr. Bowis : Mental health services for deaf people are provided at Springfield hospital, London, Prestwich hospital, Manchester and Queen Elizabeth psychiatric hospital, Birmingham. The units at Springfield and Prestwich hospitals have received supraregional funding for seven years through to 1994 to give the units time to establish referral patterns for subsequent years.
Patients Charter News"
Mr. Spearing : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the estimated cost of production and circulation of the "Patients Charter News" ; and if she will list its print total and number of editions each year ; what is its purpose ; to whom it is circulated ; and who is responsible for its content.
Dr. Mawhinney : The patients charter has stimulated many innovative ideas and much good practice throughout the national health service. The patients charter news, published every other month, aims to share ideas with NHS staff to stimulate improved performance on the charter.
Forty-four thousand copies are printed of each edition. Copies are distributed to all parts of the NHS, including health authorities and hospitals.
The estimated annual cost of patients charter news for this financial year is £30,000. The patients charter unit of the NHS management executive has responsibility for the content of the newsletter.
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NHS Premises (Tobacco Sales)
Mrs. Peacock : To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 1 July, Official Report, column 618 , if she will publish the data on which she based the statement that the ending of sales of tobacco products on NHS premises has now largely been achieved.
Mr. Sackville : The reply was based on advice from regional health authorities. As the information provided varied in format, publication is unlikely to prove useful but the results showed that, on all but a handful of sites, sales of tobacco products had ceased. Action continues to ensure the remaining outlets comply with the policy as soon as possible.
South and East Cheshire Health Authority
Mrs. Ann Winterton : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement setting out the conditions of service and remuneration of the appointment as executive directors of the South and East Cheshire health authority of Mr. Simon Cussons, Christine Hannah, Hilary Blumer, Neil Campbell, Paul Harvey, Dr. Leslie Klein and Mr. Gary Lucking.
Dr. Mawhinney : Mr. Simon Cussons is the non-executive part-time chairman of South and East Cheshire health authority, and was appointed by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for a term of office commencing 1 October 1993 until 31 March 1997. Chairmen of health authorities are remunerated within the range £15,125 to £19, 285 per year, according to the district revenue budget. The appointment of non-executive members to district health authorities is a matter for regional health authorities. The annual remuneration of non-executive members of district health authorities is £5,000. The chief executive of a district health authority is appointed by the chairman and non-executive members, and the other executive members are appointed by the chairman, non-executive members and the chief executive of that authority. The remuneration and conditions of service of the chief executive and other executive members are a matter for the authority, within guidelines laid down centrally, copies of which are available in the Library.
Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
Mr. Renton : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if the burns and plastic surgery units will remain at Queen Victoria hospital, East Grinstead ; and whether she will be able to attend the opening ceremony for the new burns unit at that hospital early in 1994.
Mr. Sackville : The burns and plastics services provided by Queen Victoria hospital were included in the specialty reviews which were carried out following the Tomlinson report and "Making London Better". The recommendations of the specialty review are available to inform the South East Thames regional health authority together with the Kent and Sussex purchasing agencies when deciding upon the provision of burns and plastic services for their residents. The Queen Victoria Hospital will become an independent national health service trust in April 1994, a decision which reflects the hospital's justified reputation as a centre of excellence.
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Alzheimer's Disease
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what provision her Department is making over the next five years for the younger sufferers from Alzheimer's disease ; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Bowis : The arrangements for assessing and meeting the needs of younger sufferers from Alzheimer's disease are decided by local health and social services authorities.
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the aims and methods of assessing Alzheimer's disease sufferers' needs ; and if she will make it her policy to allow more weight in assessment to be given to the views of family carers.
Mr. Bowis : The introduction of the health checks on patients aged 75 and over in general practitioners' contracts provides an opportunity for the cognitive impairment caused by Alzheimer's disease to be detected. Under the new community care arrangements care managers are responsible for assessing the needs of sufferers from Alzheimer's disease and for arranging for their needs to be met. Guidance emphasises that carers views' should be taken into account and, where appropriate, carers should be offered a separate assessment.
Child Migrants
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what discussions she had during her recent visit to Australasia on her policy towards British child migrants ; and if she will make a statement ;
(2) pursuant to the announcement of the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Suffolk, Central (Mr. Yeo) of 19 May regarding the Child Migrants Trust, what progress has been made in discussions with the Australian Government regarding the child migrant scheme.
Mr. Bowis : Correspondence between myself and the Australian Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs was already in train before my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State's visit to Australia in September. It was not therefore a matter for my right hon. Friend to raise during her visit.
Officials in Australia have, through the British high commission in Canberra and the consular department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, written to officials in my Department providing details of the activities, to date, of the Child Migrants Trust in Australia. Both Governments are funding the Child Migrants Trust in support of their record tracing and advisory activities.
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will take steps to arrange financial assistance and retrospective payments to former child migrants who have incurred expenditure in returning to Britain to locate and be reunited with their natural families.
Mr. Bowis : The migration schemes for children from the United Kingdom in the care of voluntary and statutory agencies, were run mainly by voluntary bodies. The Government are funding the Child Migrants Trust to assist it in record tracing and in providing an advisory service,
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and continue to support constructive contacts between the trust and the voluntary bodies which ran the schemes. The Government did not deal with individual cases. We do not consider that it would be appropriate to provide financial assistance directly to former child migrants.Dentistry
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list for each family health services authority since July 1992 (a) the number of patients seeking emergency dental treatment from their general practitioners, (b) the number of courses of dental treatment given by general practitioners and (c) the number of patient referrals of dental emergency cases referred to accident and emergency departments.
Dr. Mawhinney [holding answer 21 October 1993] : Information about the number of patients seeking emergency dental treatment from their dentists and the number of patients referred to accident and emergency departments for emergency dental treatment is not available centrally.
The number of courses of dental treatmention arrangements where courses of treatment are not identified separately. Figures for adults and children, therefore, are not comparable.
General Dental Service-England
Number of courses of dental treatments
July 1992-September 1993
FHSA |Adults |Children |Total
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Cleveland |369,555 |73,630 |443,185
Cumbria |338,625 |36,281 |374,906
Durham |337,890 |51,994 |389,884
Northumberland |184,219 |23,283 |207,502
Gateshead |120,675 |12,995 |133,670
Newcastle-upon-Tyne |166,550 |24,226 |190,776
North Tyneside |131,660 |13,003 |144,663
South Tyneside |82,757 |10,490 |93,247
Sunderland |160,977 |19,461 |180,438
Humberside |542,782 |72,620 |615,402
North Yorkshire |541,998 |51,774 |593,772
Bradford |324,423 |34,536 |358,959
Calderdale |143,770 |13,557 |157,327
Kirklees |252,634 |27,671 |280,305
Leeds |537,280 |66,272 |603,552
Wakefield |216,434 |27,187 |243,621
Derbyshire |575,467 |66,015 |641,482
Leicestershire |609,115 |65,521 |674,636
Lincolnshire |413,594 |34,405 |447,999
Nottinghamshire |719,506 |90,378 |809,884
Barnsley |124,232 |15,911 |140,143
Doncaster |186,843 |29,499 |216,342
Rotherham |137,179 |22,534 |159,713
Sheffield |378,459 |42,302 |420,761
Cambridgeshire |465,092 |43,629 |508,721
Norfolk |568,956 |49,615 |618,571
Suffolk |539,891 |44,508 |584,399
Bedfordshire |275,019 |30,472 |305,491
Hertfordshire |671,651 |80,738 |752,389
Barnet |123,839 |27,158 |150,997
Brent and Harrow |244,065 |38,931 |282,996
Ealing, Hammersmith and
Hounslow |321,604 |36,907 |358,511
Hillingdon |149,341 |16,970 |166,311
Kensington Chelsea and
Westminster |150,662 |9,032 |159,694
Essex |872,921 |112,339 |985,260
Barking and Havering |197,066 |26,323 |223,389
Camden and Islington |204,662 |13,547 |218,209
City and East London |244,619 |39,207 |283,826
Enfield and Haringey |221,331 |29,543 |250,874
Redbridge and Waltham
Forest |228,490 |36,775 |265,265
East Sussex |541,721 |40,802 |582,523
Kent |846,171 |96,875 |943,046
Greenwich and Bexley |237,794 |38,914 |276,708
Bromley |107,670 |25,650 |133,320
Lambeth, Southwark and
Lewisham |384,435 |29,593 |414,028
Surrey |676,006 |71,844 |747,850
West Sussex |555,669 |51,331 |607,000
Croydon |201,671 |28,365 |230,036
Kingston and Richmond |137,557 |24,103 |161,660
Merton, Sutton and
Wandsworth |305,412 |37,063 |342,475
Dorset |577,023 |41,248 |618,271
Hampshire |1,200,796 |93,460 |1,294,256
Wiltshire |401,007 |33,612 |434,619
Isle of Wight |104,149 |5,867 |110,016
Berkshire |434,168 |51,775 |485,943
Buckinghamshire |364,331 |39,991 |404,322
Northamptonshire |374,080 |35,003 |409,083
Oxfordshire |332,881 |31,362 |364,243
Avon |779,511 |70,834 |850,345
Cornwall and Isles of
Scilly |324,227 |25,192 |349,419
Devon |788,370 |67,626 |855,996
Gloucestershire |385,755 |32,351 |418,106
Somerset |406,295 |34,695 |440,990
Hereford and Worcester |509,949 |52,321 |562,270
Shropshire |303,768 |31,680 |335,448
Staffordshire |634,179 |74,833 |709,012
Warwickshire |337,708 |30,487 |368,195
Birmingham |630,222 |77,623 |707,845
Coventry |173,549 |19,402 |192,951
Dudley |201,674 |18,780 |220,454
Sandwell |177,813 |13,620 |191,433
Solihull |120,997 |13,558 |134,555
Walsall |137,287 |19,251 |156,538
Wolverhampton |162,244 |10,732 |172,976
Cheshire |696,882 |79,348 |776,230
Liverpool |277,480 |47,775 |325,255
St. Helens and Knowsley |187,891 |26,659 |214,550
Sefton |208,859 |21,530 |230,389
Wirral |230,016 |26,954 |256,970
Lancashire |879,956 |112,147 |992,103
Bolton |179,255 |20,511 |199,766
Bury |118,302 |15,275 |133,577
Manchester |291,239 |33,669 |324,908
Oldham |139,932 |21,931 |161,863
Rochdale |123,937 |14,882 |138,819
Salford |138,175 |20,060 |158,235
Stockport |249,835 |25,285 |275,120
Tameside |130,644 |21,181 |151,825
Trafford |179,255 |22,745 |202,000
Wigan |196,855 |28,142 |224,997
England |31,160,435|3,469,176 |34,629,611
British Nuclear Fuels plc
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the health detriment to the United Kingdom population of the BNFL proposal of retaining intermediate and low-level wastes and return of high-level wastes.
Mr. Yeo : I have been asked to reply.
Since 1976, all BNFL's contracts for reprocessing overseas spent fuel included provision for the return of wastes. Under its proposals for waste substitution, BNFL would offer to return to customers, with whom it has such
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contracts, an equivalent amount in radiological terms of high-level radioactive waste in place of intermediate and low-level waste arising from reprocessing.We have asked the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee for further advice on the integrated radiological toxic potential system, which BNFL proposes as the basis for determining radiological equivalence.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Lone Parents
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many of the lone parents claiming one-parent benefit are aged (a) under 16 years, (b) 16 to 19 years, (c) 20 to 24 years, (d) 25 to 29 years, (e) 30 to 34 years, (f) 35 to 39 years or (g) 40 years and over ; and what percentage of mothers in each of those age groups are married or have previously been married.
Mr. Burt : Information about the age of one-parent benefit recipients is not held in all cases and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Information on recipients' marital status is not available.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many of the lone parents claiming family credit benefit are aged (a) under 16 years, (b) 16 to 19 years, (c) 20 to 24 years, (d) 25 to 29 years, (e) 30 to 34 years, (f) 35 to 39 years or (g) 40 years and over ; and what percentage of mothers in each of those age groups are married or have previously been married.
Mr. Burt : The numbers of lone parents in receipt of family credit analysed by age are in the table.
Age band |Number of lone
|parents in receipt
|of family credit
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Under 16 years |n/a
16 to 19 years |1,240
20 to 24 years |17,820
25 to 29 years |37,040
30 to 34 years |48,360
35 to 39 years |46,840
40 years and over |54,520
|-------
Total |205,820
Notes:
1. These figures include both lone mothers and lone
fathers.
2. Information is not available on the marital status of
lone parents receiving family credit.
Source: 5 per cent. of sample of family credit
recipients at 30 April 1993.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many of the lone parents claiming income support benefit are aged (a) under 16 years, (b) 16 to 19 years, (c) 20 to 24 years, (d) 25 to 29 years, (e) 30 to 34 years, (f) 35 to 39 years or (g) 40 years and over ; and what percentage of mothers in each of those age groups are married or have previously been married.
Mr. Burt : The figures requested are in the tables. The figures in both tables include both female and male lone parents.
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Table 1<1>
Income Support Recipients: Lone Parents by age group<2>
Age of Recipient |Number of Cases<3>
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Under 16<4> |Nil
16 to 19 |42,000
20 to 24 |201,000
25 to 29 |248,000
30 to 34 |201,000
35 to 39 |136,000
40 and over |158,000
|----
Total |985,000
<1> Source: Income support statistics annual inquiry,
May 1992.
<2> Includes both male and female lone parents.
<3> All numbers have been rounded to the nearest
thousand.
<4> Young persons aged less than 16 cannot claim income
support.
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Table 2<1>: Lone Parents<2> receiving Income Support by Age and Marital Status
Marital Status Total Cases<3>
Never Married Previously Currently
Married<4> Married<5>
Age of Lone Parent |Cases |Per cent. |Cases |Per cent. |Cases |Per cent.
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Under 16 |Nil |0.0 |Nil |0.0 |Nil |0.0 |Nil
16-19 |38,000 |91.0 |Less than 500 |0.5 |4,000 |8.6 |42,000
20-24 |162,000 |80.9 |7,000 |3.2 |32,000 |15.9 |201,000
25-29 |139,000 |56.2 |32,000 |13.0 |76,000 |30.8 |248,000
30-34 |67,000 |33.1 |57,000 |28.1 |78,000 |38.8 |201,000
35-39 |31,000 |22.5 |53,000 |38.7 |53,000 |38.8 |136,000
40 and over |21,000 |13.1 |81,000 |51.0 |57,000 |35.9 |158,000
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |458,000 |46.5 |229,000 |23.2 |299,000 |30.4 |985,000
<1> Source: Income support statistical annual enquiry, May 1992.
<2> Includes both male and female lone parents.
<3> Numbers may not sum due to rounding. All numbers have been rounded to the nearest thousand. Percentages are correct to one decimal place.
<4> "Previously Married" refers to lone parents who are widowed or divorced.
<5> "Currently Married" refers to lone parents who are separated from their partners, or prisoners' partners.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many lone parents claiming housing benefit are aged (a) under 16 years, (b) 16 to 19 years, (c) 20 to 24 years, (d) 25 to 29 years, (e) 30 to 34 years, (f) 35 to 39
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years or (g) 40 years and over; and what percentage of mothers in the above age groups are married or have previously been married.Mr. Burt : Information is not available in the form requested. Such information as is available is in the tables.
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