LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Timothy Raison on child benefit freeze

Genre

Interview

TX Date

24 Oct 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:39

Description

Interview with Timothy Raison MP on increasing resistance from Conservative backbenchers over plans to freeze child benefit for a second year. Social Security Secretary John Moore is understood to have lost his fight with the Treasury for the grant which is paid automatically to all mothers. Instead, it’s thought more money will be allocated to the new family credit system, designed to target benefits to the poorest families. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Timothy Raison

Keywords

Budgets; Government; Social security; Conservative Party; Child Benefit

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