§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Wales on how many occasions during the past six months he has visited the Commission of the European Economic Community in Brussels on agricultural matters, or sat on 318W married women paying the standard rate, it would be necessary to increase the 1984–85 contribution rates of opted-out married women and widows by 2¾ per cent, to 6.6 per cent, of earnings to cover the extra expenditure. In making this estimate it has not been possible to allow for any possible offsetting savings, nor for additional component payable with invalidity benefit.