§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will seek to have the Inland Revenue include, when sending out notices of coding, an application form and notes on family income supplement in cases where the level of income would indicate entitlement to family income supplement.
§ Sir K. JosephNo. I am advised that it would be difficult for tax offices to identify from among the 25 million tax payers those who are likely to satisfy the conditions for family income supplement. Moreover, as tax offices do not normally hold information about the tax payer's current income, there is no adequate basis for identifying those whose present earnings entitle them to the supplement.