HC Deb 08 May 1990 vol 172 cc88-9W
Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when he expects to abolish the reduced earnings allowance.

Mr. Scott

The policy intention, as explained in "The Way Ahead", Cm. 917, January 1990 (copies of which are in the Library), is to provide for no new entitlements to reduced earnings allowance from the autumn of 1990.