HC Deb 21 April 1978 vol 948 c390W
Mr. Litterick

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is his Department's estimate of the cost of extending the long term rate of supplementary benefit to the long-term unemployed.

Mr. Deakins

About £24 million in 1978–79, on the assumption that it was paid on the same basis as for other claimants under pension age.

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