Child benefit increase

Title

Child benefit increase

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

25 Oct 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:02:37

Description

Paul Rowley reports on the Commons announcement by Social Security Secretary Tony Newton of an apparent u-turn with an increase of £1 a week in child benefit for the eldest child and speeches responding to it. Includes Commons speeches by Tony Newton; Labour’s social security spokesman, Michael Meacher; Conservative backbench critic, Nicholas Winterton(?); Jim Sillars, SNP.

Contributors

Michael Meacher; Nicholas Winterton; Paul Rowley; Tony Newton; Jim Sillars

Keywords

Social security; Margaret Thatcher; Family; Child Benefit; Norman Lamont

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