HC Deb 10 December 1997 vol 302 c543W
Mr. Drew

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what proposals there are to exempt local employment trading schemes from benefit calculations undertaken by local government. [18930]

Mr. Raynsford

Local government does not undertake any benefit calculations on behalf of my Department. For information on benefit calculations undertaken on behalf of the Department for Social Security, I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given today by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security, my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Denham).