§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish in the Official Report the total number of families claiming family income supplement, and the number and percentage of one-parent families claiming family income supplement, expressed separately for motherless and fatherless families for each year of its operation.
§ Mr. MeacherInformation in exactly the form requested is not available.
The number of families receiving family income supplement at the end of each year and the number and percentage of one-parent families is given below:
supplement. Estimates of take-up for 1975 are not yet available; the estimated take-up during 1974 was about three-quarters.