Rent Rebate and Rent Allowance (Hansard, 15 July 1994)

§ Ms Harman
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish a table setting out for every year since 1988–89 how rents paid by claimants of(a) rent rebate and (b) rent allowance, divided between those claimants who are housing association tenants and those who are private sector tenants, have risen relative to the retail prices index; how much of the increase in spending on each of these benefits is accounted for by such increases above inflation; and if he will make a statement.

§ Mr. Hague
The available information is in the table¹.

§ Mr. Burt
The full-year effects of the proposed child care disregard in family credit, housing benefit, council tax benefit and disability working allowance, to be introduced from October 1994, are expected in the longer term to be as follows:

£ million pa

(1) Increase in Family Credit expenditure +250

(2) Savings on other benefits, mostly Income Support -190

(3) Net increase in Social Security expenditure +60

(4) Offsetting increases in Tax and NI revenue -30

(5) Net increase in Public Sector Borrowing Requirement +30

	£ million pa
(1) Increase in Family Credit expenditure	+250
(2) Savings on other benefits, mostly Income Support	-190
(3) Net increase in Social Security expenditure	+60
(4) Offsetting increases in Tax and NI revenue	-30
(5) Net increase in Public Sector Borrowing Requirement	+30