To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security with reference to the letter to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North of 25 October, why it was decided not to include a figure for travel-to-work expenses in his Department's benefit model tables.

As explained in the 1988 edition, the column showing travel-to-work expenses was discontinued in view of the inadequacy of a single average figure in this context and to reduce the number of arbitrary elements that used to appear in the tables.