§ Mr. BradleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give details of the assumptions made in his Department's estimates of the cost of disability working allowance in the years 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96 and 2000–01; and on what grounds his Department no longer expects to make savings as a result of the introduction of this benefit.
§ Mr. ScottThe estimates of the gross cost of disability working allowance in each year are based on a projection of the increase in the case load. There will be savings in other benefits to off-set the gross cost but until further analysis has been done it is not possible to quantify these. The further analysis cannot be completed until we have the results of research which the Policy Studies Institute has been commissioned to conduct.
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