§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many of the 920,000 families with income below supplementary benefit, but not in receipt of it, are estimated to be entitled to supplementary benefit and whether he will set out in a table a breakdown of these numbers according to age and number of children per family.
§ Mr. DeakinsOn the basis of information available from the 1974 Family Expenditure Survey a separate estimate shows that there are 910,000 single persons and families who could be entitled to some supplementary benefit. These include 100,000 families with children, of which about 30,000 have one child, about 30,000 two children, and about 40,000 three or more children. These estimates are subject to sampling error. Estimates according to the ages of children are not available.