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Mr. Freud
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate the administrative cost involved in paying that element of family credit designed to cover school meals to the member of the family in receipt of child benefit where this is not the wage earner; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Newton
We cannot at this stage make a reliable estimate of the additional administrative cost involved in such a proposal.