HC Deb 07 March 1995 vol 256 c167W
Mr. Timms

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Dr. Jones), of 19 December 1994Official Report,column 930, if he will consider making some assessment of the ethnic origin of claimants who have failed the habitual residence test to check whether particular ethnic groups are disproportionately affected by the test.

Mr. Roger Evans

We have no plans to do so.