§ Mr. Banksasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will introduce legislation to seek to ensure that recipients of social security benefits, who have made no national insurance contributions, are required to make later repayments out of earnings when in employment.
§ Mr. OrmeNo. in the case of supplementary benefit, there are existing powers for the recovery of payments made on grounds of extreme urgency to persons who are in full-time work, and of payments made to persons who have returned to work following a trade dispute. Extension of these arrangements to other supplementary benefit payments would lead to unacceptable administrative complications, bearing in mind the small proportion of beneficiaries who would have earnings sufficient for them to repay without hardship benefit they had previously received.