§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish a table showing the level of gross earnings in April 1990 at which(a) a single householder, (b) a married couple, (c) a married couple with two children aged four and six years and (d) a single parent with one child, aged three years, will lose in housing benefit, assuming full take-up of family credit, average rent and rates and other assumptions, as in his reply to the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Clay), Official Report, 1 December 1987, c. 565-66.
§ Mrs. Gillian Shephard[pursuant to her reply, 2 March 1990, c. 366]: The information requested is given in the table: 791W
Level of gross earnings at which housing benefit ceases Family type £ per week (a) Single householder 81.20 (b) Married couple 108.00 (c) Married couple with two children aged 4 and 6 98.76 (d) Single parent with one child aged 3 57.58 Notes:
- 1. The examples assume child benefit is in payment for examples (c) and (d) and family credit is in payment for example (d).
- 2. The rent is assumed to be £19.71 for examples (a) and (b), £23.48 for example (c) and £21.86 for example (d).
- 3. Community charge is assumed to be £350.00.