§ Mr. CryerTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether the incorporation of attendance allowance into disability living allowance will result in any reduction of the number of people currently qualifying for attendance allowance; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. ScottThere will be no reduction in the number of people receiving the existing rates of benefit. Recipients of attendance allowance who are over the age of 65 will continue to receive that benefit after April 1992, and those who are under 65 will be transferred automatically to the corresponding rate of the care component of the new disability living allowance.