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27.
Mr. Andrew Mitchell
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the average annual real increase in spending on benefits for long-term sick and disabled people over the period (a) 1974 to 1979 and (b) 1979 to date; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Scott
The average annual real increase, at 1989–90 prices, was as follows:
| £ million | |
| (a) 1974–75 to 1978–79 | 220 |
| (b) 1978–79 to 1988–89 | 370 |