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Mr. Moate
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what, in real terms, is the increase on expenditure on benefits for disabled people and carers since 1979.
Mr. Scott
Total planned expenditure on benefits for disabled people and carers for 1991–92 is £11,950 million—an increase of 152 per cent. in real terms over spending in 1978–79.