HC Deb 01 March 1983 vol 38 cc68-72W
Mr. Hordern

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table listing all grants and allowances made by his Department separately, the value of each to the recipient, and the cost of each to the Exchequer.

Mr. Newton

The information required is as follows. Further information is set out on pages 60 to 67 of the public expenditure white paper "The Government's Expenditure Plans 1983–84 to 1985–86" (Cmnd. 8789).

Weekly rate from November 1982 Estimated cost in 1982/83
(£pw) (£ million)
Retirement pension: 13,543
Category A, Category B (widow) 32.85

Weekly rate from November 1982 Estimated cost in 1982/83
(£pw) (£ million)
Category B (wife), adult dependent 19.70
Child dependent 7.95
Invalidity allowance:
Higher rate 6.90
Middle rate 4.40
Lower rate 2.20
Age addition (over 80) 0.25
Widows benefits: 734
Widows allowance 45.95
Widowed Mother's allowance, Widows Pension 32.85
Child dependent 7.95
Unemployment benefit:* 1,650
Standard personal 25.00
Adult dependent 15.45
Child dependent 0.30
Sickness benefit:* 642
Standard personal 25.00
Adult dependent 15.45
Child dependent 0.30
Injury benefit:
Standard personal 27.75
Beneficiary under 18 without dependent 25.00
Adult dependent 15.45
Child dependent 0.30
Invalidity benefit: 1,611
Invalidity pension 31.45
Adult dependent 18.85
Child dependent 7.95
Invalidity allowance:
Higher rate 6.90
Middle rate 4.40
Lower rate 2.20
Industrial disablement benefit: 340
Disablement pension:
Aged over 18 or with dependent (100 per cent.) 53.60
Aged under 18 without dependent (100 per cent.) 32.85
Special hardship allowance (maximum) 21.44
Constant attendance allowance:
(Normal maximum) 21.50
Exceptional maximum) 43.00
Exceptionally severe disablement allowance 21.50
Unemployability supplement! 31.45
Rate of gratuity (£)
Disablement gratuity (maximum) 3,560.00
Industrial death benefit: 51
Widow's pension:
Initial rate 45.95
Higher permanent rate 33.40
Lower permanent rate 9.86
Widower's pension 33.40
Allowance for children:
Higher rate 7.95
Lower rate 0.30

Weekly rate from November 1982 Estimated cost in 1982/83
(£pw) (£ million)
Payments under Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975:‡ 5
Maximum rate of lesser incapacity allowance 19.70
Allowance payable where disablement not total 19.70
Maternity allowance: 153
Standard personal 25.00
Adult dependent 15.45
Child dependent 0.30
Guardians allowance 7.95 2
Child's special allowance 7.95
Non-contributory retirement pensions: 39
Higher rate 19.70
Lower rate, adult dependent 11.80
Age addition (over 80) 0.25
Attendance allowance: 405
Higher rate 26.25
Lower rate 17.50
Invalid care allowance: 8
Personal rate 19.70
Adult dependent 11.80
Child dependent 7.95
Non-contributory invalidity pension: 142
Personal rate 19.70
Adult dependent 11.80
Child dependent 7.95
Mobility allowance 18.30 237
Supplementary benefits: *6,017
Ordinary rate:
Couple 41.70
Single Householder 25.70
Non-householder:
age 18 and over 20.55
age 16–17 15.80
Long-term rate:
Couple 52.30
Single householder 32.70
Non-householder:
age 18 and over 26.15
age 16–17 20.05
Other person aged:
11–15 years 13.15
under 11 years 8.75
Boarders' personal expenses:
Ordinary rate:
Couple 17.00
Single person 8.50
Long-term rate:
Couple 18.90
Single person 9.45
Dependent children aged:
18–19 years 8.50
16–17 years 5.10
11–15 years 4.35
0–10 years 2.85
Non.householder housing addition 3.10
Heating additions:
Lower rate 1.90
Higher rate 4.65
Dietary additions:
Lower rate 1.45

Weekly rate from November 1982 Estimated cost in 1982/83
(£pw) (£ million)
Higher rate 3.35
Haemodialysis rate 9.60
Blindness addition 1.25
Addition for claimant or dependent over age 80 0.25
War pensions: 508
Disablement benefits:
Disablement pension for Private at 100 per cent. rate 53.60
Age allowance with assessments of:
40 to 50 per cent. 3.70
over 50 and not exceeding 70 per cent. 5.85
over 70 and not exceeding 90 per cent. 8.35
over 90 per cent. 11.70
Unemployability allowances:
Personal allowance 34.85
Increase for wife or other adult dependent 19.70
Increase for child 7.95
Invalidity allowances:
Higher rate 6.90
Middle rate 4.40
Lower rate 2.20
Constant attendance allowance:
Special maximum 43.00
Special intermediate 32.25
Normal maximum 21.50
Half and quarter day 10.75
Comforts allowance:
Higher rate 9.30
Lower rate 4.65
Allowance for lowered standard of occupation (maximum) 21.44
Exceptionally severe disablement allowance 21.50
Severe disablement occupational allowance 10.75
Annual rate from November 1982 (£)
Clothing allowance:
Higher rate 72.00
Lower rate 46.00
Weekly rate from November 1982 (£)
Death benefits:
Widow's pension—private's widow:
Standard rate 42.70
Childless widow under 40 9.86
Widows children 11.25
Rent allowance (maximum) 16.25
Motherless and fatherless children 12.15
Age allowance for elderly widows:
ages 65–69 4.15
age 70 and over 8.30
Adult orphans 32.85
Widower's pension (maximum) 42.70
Family Income Supplement: 92
Prescribed amount for family with 82.50
one child (income below which FIS is payable)
Increase in prescribed amount for each additional child 9.00
Maximum weekly amount for a one-child family 21.00
Increase in maximum amount for each additional child 2.00

Weekly rate from November 1982 Estimated cost in 1982/83
(£pw) (£ million)
Child benefit: 3,704
Child benefit:
each child One parent benefit: 5.85
First or only child of certain lone persons 3.65 90
Rate of grant (£)
Maternity grant 25.00 17
Death grant: 17
aged under 3 years 9.00
aged 3 to 5 years 15.00
aged 6 to 17 years 22.50
aged 18 and over 30.00
Men born between 5 July 1883 and 4 July 1893, 15.00
Women born between 5 July 1888 and 4 July 1898
Christmas bonus 10.00 106
* Where beneficiary is over pension age rates are as for invalidity pension.
† Dependency additions and age of onset allowance as for invalidity benefit.
‡ Other allowances similar to industrial disablement benefit.

Note:

An estimate additional £415 million will be paid in housing benefit to certain persons in receipt of supplementary benefit because of the partial start of the housing benefit scheme. Of this amount £105 million is in respect of rate rebates, which do not count as public expenditure.