HC Deb 15 July 1992 vol 211 c800W
Sir Malcolm Thornton

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the cost to public funds of(a) unemployment benefit and (b) related social security benefits paid to the unemployed in the financial year 1991–92.

Mr. Burt

The information for 1991–92 is not yet available. However, the estimated costs are set out in tables 1 and 5 of the second departmental report—"Social Security, The Government's Expenditure Plans 1992–93 to 1994–95", Cm 1914, published in February 1992.