I should like to draw the Minister’s attention to the numbers provided by the Office for Budget Responsibility, which show total welfare spending in 2012-13 of £213 billion, and in 2015-16 of £219 billion. All the numbers that I quoted to the Minister were OBR numbers.
Housing Costs (Reformed Welfare System)
Proceeding contribution from
Helen Goodman
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 3 March 2015.
It occurred during Estimates day on Housing Costs (Reformed Welfare System).
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