Child Benefit

HC Deb 24 January 1992 vol 202 cc341-2W

Mr. Peter Robinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what has been the cost of the provision of child benefit in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.

Mr. Hanley

The total expenditure on child benefit was as follows:

	£ million
1986–87	177.3
1987–88	182.8
1988–89	178.2
1989–90	180.2
1990–91	182.4