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22.
Mr. Janner
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what are the current priorities of his Department. [3591]
Mr. Lilley
My priorities are:
- to focus benefits on the most needy;
- to improve incentives to work and save;
- to encourage personal responsibility;
- to bear down on fraud and abuse;
- to simplify the benefits and contributions systems; and
- to ensure that the social security system does not outstrip the nation's ability to pay.