§ Mr. DewarTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the annual savings in a full year to social security expenditure from withdrawing income support assistance with mortgage interest payments from new mortgages after October 1995 for nine months assuming that(a) all income support claimants with new mortgages are affected, (b) all income support claimants except lone parents are affected, (c) all income support claimants except lone parents and pensioners are affected and (d) all income support claimants except pensioners are affected.
§ Mr. Roger EvansDetails are set out in the table.
IS claimants affected Savings October 1995 to October 1996
£ million
(a) all IS claimants with mortgages
18 (b) all IS claimants with mortgages except lone parents
15 (c) all IS claimants except lone parents and pensioners
14 (d) all IS claimants except pensioners
17 Notes:
- (1) Savings are based on information from the 1993 annual statistical inquiry, uprated to 1995–96 levels.
- (2) Savings have been estimated for a 12-month period from October 1995 to October 1996.
- (3) Assistance with mortgage payments is withdrawn for the first nine months of a new claim from October 1995 for cases with new mortgages.
- (4) Savings estimates exclude any estimates of behavioural effects.
- (5) Figures are rounded to the nearest £1 million but are not accurate to this degree of rounding.