SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFIT SCALE RATES

HL Deb 21 October 1981 vol 424 c834WA

Lord Banks

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will provide a table showing the ordinary and long-term supplementary benefit scale rates (excluding the addition for rent) for a single person; couple; couple plus one child aged 5 to 11; couple plus two children one aged under 5 and one aged 5 to 11; couple plus four children, two aged under 5 and two aged 5 to 11, as a percentage of average net male earnings for each year since 1966.

Lord Elton

Following is the information:—

benefits by 1 per cent. from November 1981 and for the whole of the year 1982–83 is given below:

	£ million
	1981–82	1982–83
(a) short-term supplementary benefit	5.7	17.6
(b) long-term supplementary benefit	3.0	8.5
(c) unemployment benefit	6.0	16.4
(d) maternity allowance	0.5	1.3
(e) sickness benefit	1.9	5.6
(f) injury benefit	0.1	0.4
(g) invalidity benefit	4.3	12.8
(h) retirement pension	40.7	118.1
(i) widows benefit	2.5	6.7
(j) non-contributory invalidity pension	0.4	1.2
(k) invalid care allowance	—	0.1
(l) mobility allowance	0.6	1.6
(m) attendance allowance	1.0	2.9