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Mr. Kirkwood
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 3 February, Official Report, column 92, if he will estimate the offsetting savings on expenditure on income-related benefits, in each case.
Mr. Jack
Based on the latest available information, the estimates are in the table:
| Gross cost £ million | Offsetting savings £ million | |
| Eldest child | 355 | 95 |
| Other children | 285 | 85 |
| Total | 640 | 1180 |
| 1In calculating the net cost of £450 million given in the previous reply, allowance was also made for a further saving of £10 million from making the normal adjustments to child dependency increases payable with certain national insurance benefits. | ||