§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish figures showing how the increases in child benefit and reduction in child tax allowances scheduled to take effect from April next will affect the net weekly income of widows with each of one to six children (a) assuming that they are wholly dependent on widowed mother's allowance and (b) assuming that they have earnings of £30, £40 and £50 a week.
§ Mr. OrmeI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury to my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Mr. Ward) on 26th October 1977. Under these arrangements, there will be no effect on the net weekly income of widows in any of the situations envisaged.—[Vol. 936, c.667–8.]