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Mr. Pawsey
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was spending on the total social security budget in 1979, 1983, 1987 and 1990–91.
Miss Widdecombe
Total social security spending was as follows.
| £ million | |
| 1978–79 | 16,602 |
| 1982–83 | 33,000 |
| 1986–87 | 46,851 |
| 1990–91 | 59,001 |
| 1 Estimated outturn. | |