Disabled People

HC Deb 08 January 1990 vol 164 c542W

21. Mr. Gwilym Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security by what proportion spending on the disabled has increased since 1979.

Mr. Scott

Expenditure on benefits for long-term sick and disabled people increased by 90 per cent. in real terms between 1978–79 and 1989–90.