§ Mr. Wakehamasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what estimate he has made of the percentage of gross income deducted in income tax and national insurance contributions on July 1977, March 1978 and May 1978 for low income pensioner households, other income pensioner households, low income other households without children, other income other households without children, low income households with children and other income households with children, as defined on the equivalence scales in CSO "Social Trends" No. 8 1977 by R. Van Slooten and A. G. Coverdale.
§ Mr. OrmeNone. The estimates in the article in "Social Trends" were derived from an analysis of data recorded514W in the family expenditure survey related to 1975. It will not be possible to provide estimates on the same basis related to 1977 or 1978 until the family expenditure survey data for these years are available.