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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the current percentage uptake of child benefit.
24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the current percentage uptake of child benefit.
36.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the current percentage uptake of child benefit.
62.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the current percentage uptake of child benefit.
Virtually 100 per cent.
23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what has been the increase in child benefit since 1987.
46.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what has been the increase in child benefit since 1987.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what has been the increase in child benefit since 1987.
We have, however, since then devoted considerable extra resources totalling some £350 million in real terms to the least well-off families—those on income support and family credit—who do not gain from an increase in child benefit of itself and who are now therefore better off than they would have been if child benefit had been uprated.
26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received on the uprating of child benefit; and if he will make a statement.
52.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received on the uprating of child benefit; and if he will make a statement.
57.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received on the uprating of child benefit; and if he will make a statement.
I refer the hon. Members to the reply given to the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan) earlier today.
30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the current value of child benefit if it had been uprated in line with inflation over the last three years.
31.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the current value of child benefit if it had been uprated in line with inflation over the last three years.
I refer the hon. Members to the reply given to the right hon. Member for Salford, East (Mr. Orme) earlier today.
34.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement on the application of the criteria used to assess potential changes in benefits policy to the decision to freeze child benefit in the last financial year.
The considerations which led my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to his decision not to increase child benefit from April 1990 were fully explained by him in his statement to the House on 25 October 1989 at columns 841–45.
49.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the value of child benefit at 1979 prices.
I refer the hon. Member to my reply my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham (Sir I. Gilmour) on 12 December 1989 at columns 583-84.