HC Deb 12 January 1981 vol 996 cc439-40W
Miss Richardson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the value of child support for a standard rate taxpaying family with two children aged under 11 years and for a family with two teenage children, as a percentage of the married couple's retirement pension and as an index number using November 1980 as 100 for each year since 1948.

Mrs. Chalker

On the assumpton that for past years child support is taken as the value to a basic rate taxpayer of child tax allowances and family allowance-child benefit, the following is the information readily available:

Two children under age 11
Child support as a percentage of married couple's retirement pension Value of child support as an index (November 1980=100)(*)
July 1948 57.1 110.8
April 1950 57.1 105.1
April 1955 58.5 129.2
April 1960 44.3 104.3
April 1964 36.5 103.8
April 1965 32.3 103.8
April 1966 32.3 100.2
April 1967 32.3 97.3
April 1968 28.1 90.9
April 1969 28.8 88.2
April 1970 25.9 83.6
April 1971 32.5 95.6
April 1972 27.1 90.0
April 1973 23.8 81.2
April 1974 26.6 90.3
April 1975 20.9 86.3
April 1976 22.0 87.6
April 1977 20.0 78.2
April 1978 21.0 87.1
April 1979 25.6 107.8
November 1980 21.9 100.0

Two children aged 13–15
Child support as a percentage of married couple's retirement pension Value of child support as an index (November 1980=100)(*)
July 1948 57.1 110.8
April 1950 57.1 105.1
April 1955 58.5 129.2
April 1960 53.5 126.2
April 1964 435 123.6
April 1965 38.3 123.1
April 1966 38.3 118.7
April 1967 38.3 115.4
April 1968 33-6 108.6
April 1969 34.2 105.1
April 1970 30.9 99.5
April 1971 37.0 109.1
April 1972 30.9 102.6
April 1973 27.5 94.0
April 1974 30.1 102.2
April 1975 23.4 96.7
April 1976 24.2 96.4
April 1977 21.8 85.6
April 1978 22.5 93.6
April 1979 25-6 107.8
November 1980 21.9 100.0
(*) Based on the movement in the general index of Retail Prices as published by the Department of Employment.