Benefits Mr. Kilroy-Silk asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list all those benefits for which he is responsible, and indicate in each case by how much they would need to be increased to maintain their April 1979 value. Mrs. Chalker Most benefits have more than retained their real value. The following table compares the present rates of social security benefits and war pensions for a single person with the levels at April 1979. The revaluation assumes a 12 per cent. increase in prices over the 12 months ended November 1981. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Benefit | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |—Higher rate | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |—Lower rate | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Child benefit (per child) | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Child's special allowance | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Death grant | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Family income supplement (prescribed for one child family) | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Guardian's allowance | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Industrial injury benefit | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |—First 26 weeks | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |—Higher permanent rate | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |—Lower permanent rate | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Widowers | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Industrial disablement benefit (100 per cent, assessment) | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Invalid care allowance | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Invalidity pension | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Maternity allowance | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Maternity grant | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Mobility allowance | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Non-contributory Invalidity pension | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Non-contributory retirement pension | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |One-parent benefit | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Retirement pension | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Sickness benefit | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Supplementary allowance Ordinary weekly scale rate single householder| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Long-term weekly scale rate single householder | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Supplementary pension—single householder | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Unemployment benefit | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |War disablement pension (100 per cent, for private) | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |War Widow's pension —standard rate for private's widow | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Widow's allowance | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Widowed mother's allowance | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |Widow's pension | -----------------------------------------------------------------------