HC Deb 16 October 1990 vol 177 cc776-7W
Mr. Kirkwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make it his policy to uprate child benefit annually in line with inflation.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace) on 15 October at columns 920–21.