§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the difference in expenditure, for each new Commonwealth child, required and identified within standard spending assessments; and how this figure was calculated.
§ Mr. Robin Squire[holding answer 19 January 1993]: There are a number of elements within standard spending assessments—SSAs—where ethnicity is used in combination with other factors as a measure of social conditions. At no point are the children of heads of household born in the new Commonwealth identified as a separate ethnic category. It is not therefore possible to identify the separate contribution of these children to SSAs. The weight given to social indices within SSAs follows extensive analysis and discussion with local authority representatives.