§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was expenditure in the United Kingdom on maternity/family social protection benefits using the European system of integrated social protection statistics depreciation for each year from 1979 to the latest available; and what equivalent information he has for each of the other European Community member states.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardThe latest statistics available were published in June 1989 in issue 1989–2 of Eurostat's "Rapid Reports on Population and Social Conditions", a copy of which is in the Library.