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15.
Mr. David Evans
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security by what amount social security spending has increased in real terms since 1979.
Mr. Newton
On current plans social security spending will be £52·6 billion in 1989–90, an increase in real terms of 35 per cent. over the figure in 1978–79, which, at today's prices, was £39 billion.