HC Deb 07 March 1991 vol 187 cc283-4W
Mr. Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the cost of administering single payments for each year of the scheme from 1980 to 1988 expressed(a) in money terms, (b) as a proportion of the total value of single payment expenditure that year and (c) at 1991 prices.

Mr. Scott

Single payments were part of the supplementary benefit scheme and administration costs were not separately identified.