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Mr. Timothy Smith
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what would be the cost of extending the invalid care allowance to married women looking after their husbands.
Mr. Rossi
The gross annual cost is estimated to be about £50 million. The net cost would be less than £5 million because the increase of social security benefit which a husband gets for his wife would be correspondingly reduced.