§ Miss Richardsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much money will be saved in 1980–81 as a result of the decision to uprate only the £1.70 national insurance component of child support for national insurance beneficiaries in line with inflation instead of the whole £5.70 as was done in the previous year.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe extra cost of short-term dependency benefit increases of national insurance benefit, if calculated on the basis of increasing £5.70 in line 523W with inflation, would be £7 million in the financial year 1980–81.
The extra cost in a full year of increasing the £5.70 short-term child support and the £11.10 long-term child support by 16.5 per cent. would be about £37 million.