HC Deb 23 January 1996 vol 270 c224W
Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the cost of restoration of the link with earnings of the state pension from April 1996: and if he will make a statement. [10848]

Mr. Heald

It is estimated that restoring the link with earnings in uprating retirement pension in 1996–97 would increase pension expenditure by £10.1 billion.