Very briefly, the rates that we have today were set in 1988 under the Social Security Act 1986 and uprated by inflation. The opportunity was there in 1988 to do things differently. At that time, it was not thought that it was right to do things differently and it was not thought that it was right to do things differently at any time up until 1997, so why the change now?
Deprivation/Child Poverty
Proceeding contribution from
Terry Rooney
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 19 June 2008.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Deprivation/Child Poverty.
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2007-08
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