§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the social security benefits (i) which have been abolished since 1979, (ii) which have not502W maintained their real value, in 1992 prices, since 1979 or the date at which they were introduced and (iii) whose availability has been restricted.
§ Mr. ScottThe information is as follows:
(i) Social Security benefits abolished since 1979:
(a) Benefits replaced by reformed schemes
- Attendance Allowance (only for those disabled before age 65)
- Community Charge Rebate (Scotland)
- Death Grant
- Family Income Supplement
- Housing Benefit Supplement and old Housing Benefit scheme
- Industrial Injury Benefit
- Maternity Grant
- Mobility Allowance
- NCIP an HNCIP (non-contributory invalidity pension and housewives' NCIP)
- Rate Rebate
- Special Hardship Allowance
- Supplementary Benefit
- Widow's Allowance
(b) Others (cases which existed at the time of abolition remain in payment)
- Child's Special Allowance
- Industrial Death Benefit
- Reduced Earnings Allowance
(ii) Benefits which have not maintained their real value since 1979* (or the date of their introduction, if later):
- Age addition (for those aged 80 and over)
- Christmas Bonus
- Maternity Allowance
- Sickness Benefit
- Statutory Sick Pay, higher rate
- Child Benefit (when revalued from rate current in April 1979)
* Benefits uprated in November 1978, except for child benefit which was uprated in April 1979, have been revalued to April 1992 prices and compared with the equivalent benefit rates on that date.
(iii) Benefits whose availability has been restricted since 1979, or since the benefit's introduction. The list includes changes in entitlement conditions of a relatively minor nature.
- Housing Benefit
- Income Support
- Industrial Disablement Benefit
- Maternity Allowance
- Sickness Benefit
- Unemployment Benefit
- Widowed Mother's Allowance
- Widow's Pension