§ Mr. Beaneyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what plans Her Majesty's Government have to increase the scales of Supplementary Benefit so as to give the same increase of 16s. per week as will be granted to retirement pensioners.
§ Mr. EnnalsI must ask my hon. Friend to await the Government's detailed proposals on benefit increases. I would, however, remind him that the scale rates of supplementary benefit were increased last October at a time when no increase was made in national insurance benefits.