Social Security Benefits (Uprating)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:30 pm on 18 June 1985.

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Photo of Charles Kennedy Charles Kennedy , Ross and Cromarty and Skye 3:30, 18 June 1985

While the general uprating is to be welcomed, will the right hon. Gentleman agree that the comments made by him and the Minister for Social Security at Question Time begin to look rather cynical? Is it not evident that by not increasing child benefit to the rate at which it should be increased and by ploughing enhanced cash support into family income supplement — which the right hon. Gentleman spent Question Time discrediting because of its low level of take-up — this is a cost-cutting exercise which is not targeting in on family poverty?