HC Deb 07 March 1990 vol 168 cc649-51W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to his reply of 19 February,Official Report, column 524, concerning consumers' expenditure on rent, rates and water charges, if he will publish an estimate for 1989 and a forecast for 1990 together with (a) a table showing the current price figures for each year deflated by the increase in the retail prices index and (b) a table listing and quantifying the factors accounting for the changes in volume between 1979 and 1988.

Mr. Norman Lamont

Estimates for 1989 will not be available until the latter part of March following the publication on 16 March of the CSO press notice on gross domestic product for the fourth quarter of 1989. Forecasts for 1990 are not available. With regard to(a), my earlier reply gave figures in constant prices; the use of the retail prices index for deflation is not appropriate here. With regard to (b), a description of the method of compilation of these constant price estimates is given in pages 77–78 of "United Kingdom National Accounts: Sources and Methods", a copy of which is available in the Library.

Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in theOfficial Report a table, further to table 15.1 of the Annual Abstract of Statistics 1989, showing for the latest available year the number of households in each country corresponding to the 13 listed categories together with the numbers of adults and children in each category in each country; and if he will provide a further breakdown of the other category.

Mr. Lilley

Information on the actual number of households for each category in each country is not available: in 1986 there were some 21.5 million households in the United Kingdom. However, an approximate guide to the relative numbers of households can be obtained from the family expenditure survey. This is given in the table for 1986, the latest available year. A further breakdown of the "other" category could be produced only at disproportionate cost.

Number of households, adults and children from the 1986 Family Expenditure Survey1, by household type and country England
Number of:
Household type H2 A C
1 adult—non-pensioner 914 914 0
1 adult—pensioner 532 532 0
2 adults—non-pensioner 1,683 3,366 0
2 adults—pensioner 286 572 0
2 adults, 1 child 462 924 462
2 adults, 2 children 611 1,222 1,222
2 adults, 3 children 199 398 597
3 adults 444 1,332 0
3 adults, 1 child 167 501 167
4 adults 174 696 0
1 adult with child(ren) 228 228 392
Other households 304 1,056 672
All households in sample 6,004 11,741 3,512
Wales
Number of:
Household type H A C
1 adult—non-pensioner 56 56 0
1 adult—pensioner 38 38 0
2 adults—non-pensioner 94 188 0
2 adults—pensioner 22 44 0
2 adults, 1 child 36 72 36
2 adults, 2 children 32 64 64
2 adults, 3 children 21 42 63
3 adults 31 93 0
3 adults, 1 child 15 45 15
4 adults 13 52 0
1 adult with child(ren) 10 10 17
Other households 21 72 47
All households in sample 389 776 242
Scotland
Number of:
Household type H A C
1 adult—non-pensioner 101 101 0
1 adult—pensioner 69 69 0
2 adults—non-pensioner 154 308 0
2 adults—pensioner 29 58 0
2 adults, 1 child 47 94 47
2 adults, 2 children 82 164 164
2 adults, 3 children 19 38 57
3 adults 49 147 0
3 adults, 1 child 19 57 19
4 adults 23 92 0
1 adult with child(ren) 26 26 40
Other households 34 119 77
All households in sample 652 1,273 404
Northern Ireland
Number of:
Household type H A C
1 adult—non-pensioner 18 18 0
1 adult—pensioner 14 14 0
2 adults—non-pensioner 32 64 0
2 adults—pensioner 1 2 0
2 adults, 1 child 10 20 10
2 adults, 2 children 19 38 38
2 adults, 3 children 7 14 21
3 adults 10 30 0
3 adults, 1 child 1 3 1
4 adults 2 8 0
1 adult with child(ren) 4 4 5
Other households 15 53 39
All households in sample 133 268 114
United Kingdom
Year Imputed income1 from owner/rent free occupancy Weekly 1 3 equivalent of rateable value £/household Rents price4 index 1985 = 100 Index of local5 authorities rents 1985 = 100 Components of the retail prices index annual averages
£/week average per household Percentage of average household income2 Rent 1985 = 100 Rates 1985 = 100
1975 2.44 3.4 3.19 32.0 26.6 27.3 26.9
1976 3.46 4.2 3.20 37.1 30.6 31.4 31.0
1977 3.93 4.2 3.32 41.2 35.4 35.9 34.5
1978 4.93 4.6 3.54 46.3 37.7 39.7 38.1
1979 5.65 4.7 3.62 53.7 41.3 43.6 44.2
1980 6.75 4.6 3.68 62.6 49.7 52.0 55.4
1981 7.79 4.6 3.70 74.8 7.7 70.5 70.1
1982 8.57 4.8 3.64 84.5 85.7 82.7 80.3
1983 9.70 5.2 3.71 90.8 89.3 88.0 87.1
1984 10.23 5.2 3.74 94.3 93.9 93.2 92.4
1985 11.86 5.5 4.30 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
1986 12.57 5.4 4.45 105.1 106.1 106.5 113.0
1987 12.95 5.1 4.48 110.3 112.4 112.8 123.2
1988 15.83 5.6 4.60 116.9 123.4 121.1 133.4
1989 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 136.6 132.2 145.8
1 Estimates based on Family Expenditure Survey.
2 Household income figures for 1982 and earlier are not comparable with 1983, or with 1984, or with 1985 and following years.
3 In 1985 rateable values for Scotland were reassessed.
4 Consumers Expenditure rent deflator.
5 Estimates for local authorities Great Britain only based on returns by local authorities to the Department of the Environment, Scottish Development Department and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).