§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how he intends to take account of the views of disability organisations in developing his proposals for changing social security provision for disabled people;
(2) who will be invited to give evidence to assist him in reviewing social security benefits for disabled people.
§ Mr. ScottI refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Don Valley (Mr. Redmond) and the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris) on 23 October at columns341–42.
§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will be establishing a working party to formulate proposals for the review of disability benefits; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. ScottI refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) on 13 November at columns51–52.
§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish his proposals for social security benefits for disabled people as a Green Paper.
§ Mr. ScottWe will make a statement within the next few months announcing proposals to improve the balance and structure of benefits for disabled people. It is too early to say what form that statement will take.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the number of claimants in receipt of income support transitional protection who are getting child disability premium at the latest date for which figures are available.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardBased on the May 1988 annual statistical inquiry, an estimated 2,000 claimants getting the disabled child premium were in receipt of transitional protection immediately after the April 1989 annual benefit uprating.
§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the number of claimants in receipt of income support transitional protection who are getting pensioner premium or higher pensioner premium at the latest date for which figures are available.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardBased on the May 1988 annual statistical inquiry, an estimated 250,000 claimants getting the pensioner premium or the higher pensioner premium were in receipt of transitional protection immediately after the April 1989 annual benefit uprating.
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§ Ms. ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the number of claimants in receipt of income support transitional protection who are getting disability and/or severe disability premium at the latest date for which figures are available.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardBased on the May 1988 annual statistical inquiry, an estimated 25,000 claimants getting the disability premium, or the disability premium and the severe disability premium were in receipt of transitional protection immediately after the April 1989 annual benefit uprating.