HC Deb 09 May 1995 vol 259 c391W
Mr. Malcolm Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the savings to the Exchequer from the lowest rate of income support benefit payable to those aged between 18 and 25 years. [22407]

Mr. Roger Evans

The current annual cost of raising the income support rate for 18 to 24-year-olds to that payable for single people aged 25 and above would be about £240 million.

Notes:

  1. 1. The figure is based on the 1990, 1991, 1992 family expenditure surveys, uprated to 1995–96 prices and benefit levels.
  2. 2. The figure includes the additional cost of linked increases in housing benefit and council tax benefit.