§ Rev. William McCreaTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of the current costs of bringing up children to(a) lone parents and (b) couples. [12547]
§ Mr. MossWhere a lone parent is in employment there is a potentially greater need to pay for child care. Apart from this, there is no consistent evidence that the financial requirements of a lone-parent household in bringing up a child are different from those of a two-parent household.