§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, further to his answer to the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South on 22nd November 1978 regarding the unemployed man from Salford getting £ 130 a week on social security, if he will now consider putting an upper limit on the amount any one person can get on social security in any one week.
§ Mr. Orme:No. The benefit rates approved by Parliament take family circumstances into account. I have no plans for a general upper limit on social security payments. This would have the effect of reducing entitlement to contributory invalidity benefit in cases where a claimant has an exceptionally large family.