§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will pay a supplement to one-parent families on supplementary benefit to 471W recognise their special needs and ensure that they receive the long-term rate at once rather than after two years.
§ Mr. OrmeI would refer the hon. Member to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Gravesend (Mr. Ovenden) on 6th December 1976. Consideration of the earlier payment of the long-term scale rate to lone parents, or any other group, must await financial resources becoming available.—[Vol. 922, c.71–2.]