§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if she will express the proposed increased level of family allowances for the second child which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;
(2) if she will express the proposed increased level of long-term weekly rate of supplementary benefit for a single person living alone which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;
(3) if she will express the proposed increased level of the long-term weekly rate of supplementary benefit for a husband and wife and two dependants aged 15 years which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;
(4) if she will express the proposed increased level of the ordinary weekly rate of supplementary benefit for a husband and wife and two dependants aged 15 years which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;
(5) if she will express the proposed increased level of the standard rate of unemployment and sickness benefit for (a) a single person and (b) assuming one adult dependant which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;
(6) if she will express the proposed increased level of the three rates of invalidity allowance which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;
(7) if she will express the proposed increased level of invalidity, widow and retirement pensions and widowed mother's allowance which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;
509W(8) if she will express the proposed increased level of the higher and lower rate of the attendance allowance which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;
(9) if she will express the proposed increased level of industrial injury benefit which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;
(10) if she will express the proposed increased level of disablement benefit at 100 per cent. assessment which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;
(11) if she will express the proposed increased level of industrial death benefit
Benefit Value of proposed rate of benefit at March 1965 prices Rate in March 1965 £ £ Unemployment/Sickness benefit: (a) Single person 4.96 4.00 (b) Single person plus adult dependant 8.05 6.50 Retirement pension 5.87 4.00 Widows' pension 5.87 4.00 Widowed mothers' allowance (personal element) 5.87 4.00 Invalidity benefit* 5.87 — Invalidity allowance*: Higher rate 1.21 — Middle rate 0.76 — Lower rate 0.38 — Attendance allowance*: Higher rate 4.66 — Lower rate 3.14 — Family allowance: Two-child family 0.76 0.40 Industrial injury benefit 6.35 6.75 Industrial disablement benefit 9.72 6.75 Industrial death benefit 6.15 4.50 Supplementary benefit: Single person living alone (ordinary) 4.89 3.80 Single person living alone (long-term)* 6.11 — Husband and wife with two dependants aged 13 to 15 years (ordinary) 13.00 9.625 Husband and wife with two dependants aged 13 to 15 years (long-term)* 14.63 — * These benefits or scale rates were introduced after March 1965.