HC Deb 02 July 1993 vol 227 cc641-2W
Ms Mowlam

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how much the market-testing programme has cost his Department since November 1992.

Mr. Hague

The costs since November 1992 are broadly estimated at £.3.2 million.

These costs when set against the Department's programme of market testing £127 million of business this year and the scale of savings which have previously been derived from market testing—some 25 per cent.—do not seem disproportionately high.

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