§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list all the social security benefits where the cash increase in November 1980 is less than in November 1979.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe information requested is as follows:
- Unemployment benefit
- Sickness benefit
- Maternity allowance
- Child's special allowance
- Invalidity pension
- Invalidity allowance (and equivalent payable with unemployability supplements)
- Unemployability supplements to war pensions and industrial injuries benefits
- Adult dependency increases with short-term benefits and invalidity benefit
- * Increases for dependent children
- Guardian's allowance
- War pensions for motherless or fatherless children
- War pensions comforts allowance
- * The rates of these increases take account of the increase in child benefit.