Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Bickering over benefit stats

Judith Collins and David Benson-Pope have locked horns quibbling over benefit statistics.

Facts; The number on the Sickness Benefit grew by 3 percent over the year to June 05 and 4 percent to June 06. On the Invalids Benefit by respectively 3 percent and 3 percent. Small percentages but large numbers at 47,072 and 75,349.

2 comments:

Peter Cresswell said...

Scoop have removed the Benson-Dope story.

Just so you know.

Anonymous said...

Hi Lindsay, enjoy the blog.

Query: Sometime ago you wrote an article, the gist of which was that if we listened to all the dire predictions coming from the 'experts' there would be few of us left. Do you know where I can find this, don't go to any bother, thanks,

W