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Reduced Benefit Expenditure

Volume 982: debated on Friday 18 April 1980

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a breakdown of reduced benefit expenditure from the national insurance fund in respect of each of the benefits referred to in clause 1 of the Social Security (No. 2) Bill.

The reductions in benefit expenditure in a full year will be of the order of:

£ million
Unemployment benefit45
Sickness benefit30
Maternity allowances5
Invalidity benefit55
Injury benefit etc.5