In-work Benefits

HC Deb 08 December 1994 vol 251 cc367-8W

Mr. Wicks

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) if he will make a statement on the introduction of the new in-work benefits for single people and childless couples;

(2) what is his Department's estimate of the annual gross and net costs of introducing on a national basis the in-work benefit for single people and childless couples; how many single people and childless couples would be eligible; and what proportion these form of the totals in these groups.

Mr. Roger Evans

We shall be publishing a consultation document in April 1995 giving details of our proposals for the new in-work benefit.