§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Employment, further to his Written Answer to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North, Official Report, 2nd February 1978, columns 287–8, if he will give the same information relating to single people, married couples and married couples with one and three or more children.
§ Mr. GoldingThe available information is given below. Separate analyses are not available for households living on national assistance/supplementary benefit scales. As an indication of the spending pattern of those households information is given for households with a similar total income but from whatever source.
843WThe proportion of household expenditure on all goods and services spent on food, housing and fuel, light and power by households in the United Kingdom comprising one adult; one man and one woman; one man, one woman and one child; one man, one woman and three or more children at the following levels of gross income is:
Percentages Year Household with income approximately equal to national assistance/supplementary benefit scale Household with income approximately equal to average male manual earnings 1953 69 40 1961 69 39 1965 66 49 1970 68 41 1971 68 38 1972 71 37 1973 66 38 1974 67 45 1975 64 42 1976 66 42
ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN Percentages Year Household with income approximately equal to national assistance/supplementary benefit scale Household with income approximately equal to average male manual earnings 1953 62 50 1961 66 50 1965 64 47 1970 61 52 1971 60 44 1972 62 46 1973 61 44 1974 61 47 1975 60 49 1976 60 48 844W
ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN AND ONE CHILD Percentages Year Household with income approximately equal to national assistance/supplementary benefit scale Household with income approximately equal to average male manual earnings 1953 57 51 1961 51 50 1965 55 49 1970 49 46 1971 57 47 1972 54 45 1973 47 43 1974 52 47 1975 50 47 1976 53 48
ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN AND THREE OR MORE CHILDREN Percentages Year Household with income approximately equal to national assistance/supplementary benefit scale Household with income approximately equal to average male manual earnings 1953* 66 57 1961 60 54 1965 55 55 1970 55 52 1971 60 51 1972* 52 56 1973* 50 52 1974* 52 49 1975* 54 54 1976* 54 52 * For these years, information is available for households comprising one man, one woman and three children only. The figures for 1953 have been obtained from the Household Expenditure Enquiry of 1953–54 and for subsequence years from the family Expenditure survey. They are subject to sampling error.
§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Employment, further to his Written Answer to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North, Official Report, 2nd February 1978, columns 287–8, if he will give the same information for single and married retirement pensioners, assuming incomes equal to standard retirement pension plus supplementary pension.
§ Mr. GoldingThe available information is given below. It covers pensioner households with incomes of at least three-quarters derived from national insurance retirement and similar pensions, including benefits paid in supplement to, or instead of, such pensions.
The proportion of household expenditure on all goods and services spent on food, housing and fuel, light and power by pensioner households in the United Kingdom comprising one person and two persons is:—
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Year One-person pensioner households percentage expenditure Two-person households percentage expenditure 1953 72 64 1971 70 63 1972 72 62 1973 70 63 1974 69 60 1975 70 61 1976 69 63 The figures for 1953 have been obtained from the Household Expenditure Enquiry of 1953–54 and for subsequent years from the Family Expenditure Survey. They are subject to sampling error. The expenditure of one-person and two-person pensioner households was not analysed separately for 1961, 1965 and 1970.