§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services why the abatement of increase in industrial injury benefits is 6.4 percentage points compared to other benefit abatements of 5 percentage points.
§ Mrs. ChalkerSection 126(4) of the Social Security Act 1975 enables the408W amount of an uprating to be adjusted so that the rates of particular benefits continue to differ from each other by the same amount. The rate of injury benefit is accordingly maintained at £2.75 above the rate of sickness benefit. If this industrial preference is disregarded, the treatment of injury benefit under the Social Security (No. 2) Bill is exactly the same as that of sickness benefit.