Many families and individuals are being cruelly hit by the cumulative effects of the neglected basic pension, of the losses of housing benefit, which has been cut by £600million, and of the problems of repaying Budget Or Crisis loans.

Mr. Wigley: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the total amount of Budget Or Crisis loans to claimants on income support for each month since January 1989.

what number of (a) one parent families, (b) sick and disabled claimants, (c) pensioners and (d) unemployed claimants on income support were repaying Budget Or Crisis loans at (i) Caernarfon and (ii) Porthmadog for each month since January 1989.