• In 2004/05 the average number of visits per month to the NHS Direct Online website was 774,000, compared with 169,000 visits in 2001/02. (Page 124)
• In real terms, social security benefit expenditure in the United Kingdom has risen from £57 billion in 1977/78 to £125 billion in 2004/05. (Figure 8.1)
• In 2003/04, 55 per cent of single female pensioners in Great Britain had an occupational or personal pension in addition to the state pension, compared with 70 per cent of single male pensioners and 82 per cent of couples. (Table 8.8) Latest information on pension contributions
• Single pensioners are more likely than couples to receive any type of income-related benefits – in 2003/04, 33 per cent of single male and 43 per cent of single female pensioners in the UK received income-related benefits compared with 17 per cent of pensioner couples. (Table 8.10)
• In 2004/05, 68 per cent of females and 65 per cent of males in Great Britain who had consulted their GP in the previous two weeks had obtained a prescription. (Page 123) Latest information on GP consultations
• In 2003 the majority of families where the mother was working were using some form of childcare. Around two thirds of children up to the age of ten received informal childcare in Great Britain. (Table 8.19)
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