Anne Main welcomes the extra £6.6 billion for 2012-13 pensions and benefits, but urges the Government to ensure that this money does not go to European 'benefit tourists'.

Mrs Anne Main (St Albans) (Con): I am sure that the £6.6 billion that the Minister has announced today will be welcome to many families in the UK, but I am extremely concerned that the European Commission is seeking to open that benefit pot to European benefit tourists who seek to avail themselves of it. That £6.6 billion will be in no way enough if we are to encompass benefits for European benefit tourists.

Steve Webb: I can assure my hon. Friend that my right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling), the employment Minister, has quite categorically stated that Britain does not believe in benefit tourism, and that we will do all we can to prevent it.

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