§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will provide a breakdown of the cost of each of the 10 immediate improvements in benefits for disabled people and their carers, announced in his uprating statement on 25 October,Official Report, columns 841 to 854.
§ Mr. ScottThe costs of each measure in the first full year (1991–92 unless otherwise stated) are set out as follows:
- 1. Increase in the adult disability premium: £18 million.
- 2. Alignment of disabled child premium with adult rate: £8 million.
- 3. Carer's Premium: £15 million.
- 4. Abolition of Attendance Allowance six month waiting period for the terminally ill: £26 million.
- 5. Attendance Allowance for children under two years old: £5 million.
- 6. Extension of Invalid Care Allowance to many carers as a result of 4 and 5 above: £3 million.
- 7. Extension of Mobility Allowance to the deaf-blind: £5 million.
- 8 and 9. Increases in the Invalid Care Allowance earnings rule and in the incapacity benefits Therapeutic Earnings Limit together with the extension of Invalidity Benefit to those on Employment Rehabilitation Courses: less than £1 million.
- 10. Additional funds for the Independent Living Fund (1990–91): £19 million.