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Mr. Lofthouse
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how much growth is to be allowed in the reimbursement to local authorities for (a) housing benefit in respect of local authority tenants and (b) rent allowances to private tenants for 1989–90 to 1991–92.
Mr. Scott
On the basis that subsidy for 1989–90= 100, estimates of growth for the following two years are in the table.
| 1989–90 | 1990–91 | 1991–92 | |
| (a)housing benefit | 100 | 107·5 | 117·6 |
| (b)rent allowances | 100 | 110·1 | 116·2 |