Benefit Model Tables (Hansard, 21 January 1992)

HC Deb 21 January 1992 vol 202 cc175-6W 175W

§ Mr. Ralph Howell
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security with reference to the letter to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North of 25 October, why it was decided not to include a figure for travel-to-work expenses in his Department's benefit model tables.

§ Mr. Jack
As explained in the 1988 edition, the column showing travel-to-work expenses was discontinued in view of the inadequacy of a single average figure in this context and to reduce the number of arbitrary elements that used to appear in the tables.
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