HC Deb 27 November 1989 vol 162 c142W
29. Mrs. Roe

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what additional support his Department will be providing next year to low-income families with children.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

We will be providing additional support in 1990–91 of around £70 million for less well-off families with children over and above the normal uprating of benefits.