HC Deb 14 March 1995 vol 256 cc473-4W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when he(a) expects the. regulations restoring entitlement to part-time school workers for family credit to come into effect; if they will be retrospective; and if he will consider making ex gratia payments to those who do not qualify for income support.

Mr. Roger Evans

The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995—SI 1995 No. 516—were laid before Parliament on 10 March 1995. Regulation 11 of these regulations provides for the hours of school workers and others with a similar pattern of employment to be averaged over termtime only for the purpose of determining whether or not they satisfy the condition of entitlement to family Service in the armed forces ended on or after 31 March 1973.