HC Deb 10 March 1980 vol 980 cc419-20W
Mr. Robert Taylor

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the statistics prepared for him relating to liable relatives who are said to have abandoned their family responsibilities, leaving the State to support their wives and children.

Mr. Prentice

No special statistics have been prepared. Some relevant general information is contained in "Social Security Statistics 1977" and some more specific data are in the report of the Supplementary Benefits Commission for 1978—page 102. Copies of both publications are in the Library.