§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will provide a breakdown of the cost of the extra £70 million he is spending on families with children by each measure announced in his uprating statement on 25 October,Official Report, columns 841 to 854.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardThe cost of extra measures to help least well-off families with children in the first full year (1991–92) will be as follows:
- Addition of 50p to family premium in Income Support —£34 million.
811 - Addition of £1 to adult credit in Family Credit—£16 million.
- Addition of £1.10 to lone parent premium in Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit—£2 million.
- Raising of Housing Benefit disregard on earnings to £25for lone parents—£11 million.
- Raising Social Fund Maternity Grant from £85 to £100 —£3 million.
- Two other measures will extend further help to less well off families:
- Raising Disabled Child Premium to level of adult Disability Premium—£8 million.
- That part of the cost of extending Attendance Allowance for children under 2 which will benefit families in Income Support—£1 million.