1 2018-11-06 2 Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett House of Lords false Baroness Lister of Burtersett 29 HL11324 Work and Pensions Social Security Benefits: Families 2018-11-20T17:08:23.223Z Baroness Buscombe false 2018-11-20 Biography information for Baroness Buscombe <p>The latest data shows that the UK spends 3.8 per cent of GDP on expenditure classified by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as “family benefits”. This is more than any other country in the OECD.</p><p> </p><p>“Family benefits” include cash benefits, such as personal tax credits, Child Benefit; maternity benefits and child Disability Living Allowance; and benefits in kind covering child care and social services. They do not include other benefits that might be available to the claimant, such as Personal Independence Payment or Housing Benefit.</p> Work and Pensions To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Baroness Buscombe on 5 November (HL Deb, col 1581), what evidence informed her statement that the UK “provides more benefits for families than any other advanced nation”; and what measure of “benefits for families” was used. Department for Work and Pensions 1 10 0