§ Mr. CrowtherTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make it his policy to increase mobility allowance next month by an amount close to the current rate of inflation rather than that prevailing in September 1988.
§ Mr. ScottNo. Price increases from September 1988 to April 1989 will be taken into account at the next benefits uprating. Between November 1979 and April 1988 mobility allowance rose in real terms by 9.4 per cent. The estimated average number of people receiving mobility allowance has increased from 95,000 in 1978–79 to 530,000 in 1988–89.