§ Mr. Jim CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will bring forward proposals for further compensation for pensioners for the increases in water charges and value added tax.
§ Mr. HagueThe exceptional package of measures to help pensioners and others with VAT on domestic fuel will include further help from April 1995. Variations in the cost of other items in the household budget will be reflected in the indices on which the annual uprating of benefits is based.