§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what assessment he has made of the impact of the provision of the Jobseekers Bill on the classification of unemployment benefit and analogous expenditure on income support into(a) planned expenditure and (b) cyclical expenditure; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Roger Evans[holding answer 16 January 1995]: Like the benefits which it is to replace, jobseeker's allowance will be, subject to passage of necessary legislation, cyclical social security expenditure.