HC Deb 24 July 1989 vol 157 c564W
Sir Ian Gilmour

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his latest estimate of the public expenditure savings as a result of the low take up of means-tested benefits.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

I refer my right hon. Friend to my reply to the hon. Member for Nottingham, North (M r. Allen) on 7 February 1989 at columns628–29. Estimates of the take-up of the main income-related benefits for 1985 will be published before the summer recess.