§ 50. Mr. Parkerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the estimated annual cost of paying the necessary staff with travelling, subsistence allowances, extra office accommodation and expenses required to track down cohabitors; and if he will express this as a proportion of the money saved.
§ Mr. DeanIt is estimated that some £400,000 of the cost of employing special investigators was attributable to work on cases of alleged cohabitation in 1971. This is 45 per cent. of the benefit estimated to be saved.