§ Sir David KnoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will disaggregate the total expenditure figures in table 1 of "The Growth of Social Security," in order to show the different growth rates of(a) national insurance basic retirement pension, (b) national insurance unemployment benefit, (c) naational insurance invalidity benefit, (d) family allowance/child benefit, (e) national assistance/supplementary benefit/income support, (f) one-parent benefit, (g) housing benefits and (h) rate rebates/community charge benefit.
Real growth in social security benefit expenditure £ billion (1992.93 prices) 1949–501 1959–601 1969–701 1979–80 1989–90 1992–932 Total expenditure of which 10.3 15.4 27.2 44.9 59.7 74.1 basic retirement pension 4.4 7.9 13.3 21.1 24.1 25.5 unemployment benefit 0.3 0.6 1.1 1.6 0.9 1.8 family allowance/child benefit 1.1 1.6 2.9 6.7 5.4 5.8 Index of expenditure in real terms (1949–50=100) total 100 150 264 436 580 719 basic retirement pension 100 180 302 480 548 580 unemployment benefit 100 200 367 533 300 600 family allowance/child benefit 100 145 264 609 491 527 Expenditure as a percentage of GDP total 4.7 5.3 7.0 9.0 9.5 12.3 basic retirement pension 2.0 2.7 3.4 4.2 3.8 4.2 unemployment benefit 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.3 family allowance/child benefit 0.5 0.6 0.7 1.3 0.9 1.0 1Benefit expenditure data refers to 1949, 1959 and 1969 respectively. 2Provisional.