§ Mr. Gordon BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what is his estimate of the level of loans that will be written off each year under the social fund in the figures in the Government's expenditure plans 1988–89.
§ Mr. ScottSocial fund loans will seldom be written off. The net expenditure figures for loans which underlie the figures in the Government's expenditure plans 1988–89 assume that a proportion of loan repayments will remain outstanding at the end of each accounting period, but do not contain specific assumptions about the level of loans which are written off.