Housing Benefit

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 July 1988.

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Photo of Mr Brian Wilson Mr Brian Wilson , Cunninghame North 12:00, 12 July 1988

Does the Minister accept that when the Secretary of State told the House on 27 April that people most severely and significantly affected by the housing benefit cuts would benefit from the transitional arrangements, he was guilty of a very cruel con on some of the most vulnerable people in society? Will he confirm that many of the people who are most savagely hit by housing benefit cuts will not and were never meant to be helped by these transitional arrangements? How many people have so far applied for the transitional arrangements, bearing in mind the confusing under-publicity of the scheme? Will he confirm that the calculation made by his Department is that only 10 per cent. of those who apply will be successful? Will he answer these points——