Disability Working Allowance

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 February 1992.

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Photo of Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith , Wealden 12:00, 3 February 1992

Is my right hon. Friend aware that this new benefit will be widely welcomed? Will he confirm that if we had adopted a scatter-gun approach to benefits, as the Labour Government did, the substantial improvements in help for the disabled since 1979 would not have been possible? Can he say by how much the groups affected by the scheme will have benefited in those years?