Child Benefit (Hansard, 18 November 1991)

§ Mr. Dykes
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what will be the total value to a two-child family of the three increases in child benefit which will have taken place in the year to April 1992.

§ Mr. Beaumont-Dark
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what will be the total value to a two-child family of the three increases in child benefit which will have taken place in the year to April 1992.

§ Mr. Jack
I refer my hon. Friends to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Erewash (Mr. Rost) earlier today.

§ Mr. Barry Field
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what will be the full-year cost of the last two increases in child benefit and next April's proposed increase.

§ Mr. Jack
The full-year cost in 1992–93 will be over £1 billion. This represents an increase of 22 per cent. compared with the expenditure for 1990–91.