ANNEX B
TABLES AND CHARTS SHOWING EXPENDITURE BY
TYPE OF BENEFIT FROM 1949-50 AND REAL GROWTH IN SOCIAL SECURITY
BENEFIT EXPENDITURE SINCE 1949-50
BASED ON
THE FOLLOWING
CLASSIFICATION:
Contributory Benefits
Retirement Pension (basic and earnings-related)
Christmas Bonus (contributory)
Widow's Benefit (basic and earnings-related)
Unemployment Benefit/Jobseeker's Allowance (contribution-based)
Sickness Benefit/Invalidity Benefit/Incapacity
Benefit
Statutory Sick Pay (included under contributory
benefit in the Departmental Report)
Statutory Maternity Pay (included under contributory
benefit in the Departmental Report)
Maternity allowance
Guardian's Allowance and Child's Special Allowance
Death Grant
Income-Related Benefits
Jobseeker's Allowance (income-based)
Supplementary Benefit/Income Support for elderly
(age 60+)
Supplementary Benefit/Income Support under 60
(includes income support to the unemployed prior to the introduction
of JSA in October 1996)
Family Credit/Family Income Supplement
Disability Working Allowance
Housing Benefit (including Council Tax Benefit/Community
Charge Benefit/Rates Rebates etc)
Social Fund (excl Winter Fuel Payments)
Grants to Independent Living Fund
Grants to Motability and BLESMA
Earnings Top-up
Other Non-Contributory Benefits
Industrial Disablement Benefit (paid out
of NI Fund prior to 1 April 1990)
Industrial Death Benefit (paid out of NI Fund
prior to 1 April 1990)
Other Industrial Injuries Benefits (paid
out of NI Fund prior to 1 April 1990)
Maternity Grant
Non-contributory Retirement Pension
Christmas Bonus—Non-Contributory
War Pension
Attendance Allowance
Invalid Care Allowance
Severe Disablement Allowance/Housewives/Non-Contributory
Incapacity Benefit
Mobility Allowance
Disability Living Allowance
Child Benefit
One Parent Benefit
Winter Fuel Payments
Source: These categories and data are
taken from (1) the Departmental Report and earlier equivalents
and (2) the National Insurance Fund Accounts and Appropriation
Accounts for relevant years.
REAL GROWTH IN SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT EXPENDITURE
GREAT BRITAIN £ BILLION (1998-99 PRICES)
| 1949-50 | 1954-55
| 1959-60 | 1964-65
| 1969-70 | 1974-75
| 1979-80 | 1984-85
| 1989-90 | 1994-95
| 1999-00 | 2001-02
|
| Total Expenditure | 12.3 |
14.0 | 18.3 | 22.9
| 32.0 | 38.6 | 51.4
| 68.6 | 68.9 | 94.5
| 98.8 | 100.9 |
| Index of expenditure in real terms (1949-50 = 100)
| 100 | 113 | 149
| 186 | 259 | 313
| 417 | 557 | 559
| 767 | 802 | 819
|
| Expenditure as a percentage of GDP | 4.7%
| 4.6% | 5.5% | 5.8%
| 7.2% | 7.6% | 9.1%
| 11.6% | 9.6% | 12.4%
| 11.5% | 11.1% |
ANNUAL AVERAGE REAL GROWTH (%)
| 49-50 to 54-55 |
54-55 to 59-60 | 59-60 to 64-65
| 64-65 to 69-70 | 69-70 to 74-75
| 74-75 to 79-80 | 79-80 to 84-85
| 84-85 to 89-90 | 89-90 to 94-95
| 94-95 to 99-00 |
| Contributory | 1.9% | 8.5%
| 5.8% | 6.1% | 5.1%
| 2.9% | 2.8% | 0.3%
| 3.1% | 0.6% |
| Income-related benefits | 6.0%
| 0.6% | 4.0% | 11.2%
| 4.6% | 7.7% | 19.1%
| 0.0% | 11.9% | -1.0%
|
| Other non-contributory benefits | 2.41%
| 0.6% | 0.7% | 6.9%
| -2.8% | 18.0% | 2.1%
| -0.6% | 7.2% | 6.1%
|
| Total | 2.6% |
5.5% | 4.6% | 6.9%
| 3.8% | 5.9% |
5.9% | 0.1% | 6.5%
| 0.9% |
| 
