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Mr. Nigel Griffiths
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be (a) the gross and (b) the net cost of raising child benefit in a full financial year in line with the rise in tax thresholds in between 1989–90 to 1990–91 uprated according to the statutory formula.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard
The costs would be about £345 million gross and £260 million net.