§ Mr. Kenneth Clarkeasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what level of family income supplement will be paid to a family at the maximum eligibility levels for family income supplement with one, two, three and four children, respectively, after July 1976; what level of child benefit would be required in April 1977 to provide the equivalent of the value of family income supplement, child tax allowances and family allowances for such recipients of family income supplement; and what would be the cost to public funds of providing child benefit at such a level.
§ Mr. EnnalsAfter July 1976 the maximum amount of family income supplement for, respectively, a family with one, two, three and four children will be £8.50, £9, £9.50 and £10. The level of child benefit which would be required in April 1977 to ensure that any such two-parent family received at least the equivalent of the value to it of family income supplement, child tax allowances and family allowances would be £8.90 a child; and the annual net Exchequer cost of providing a universal child benefit at that level would be about £4,000 million.