HC Deb 09 May 1988 vol 133 c40W
Mr. Boswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the first-year cost of transitional protection(a) under the social security changes implemented in April and (b) under the further modifications he announced on 27 April.

Mr. Scott

Estimates of the information requested are(a) rather more than £200 million and (b) about £100 million.