HC Deb 30 January 1996 vol 270 cc745-6W
Mr. Chisholm

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 23 January,Official Report, column 213, if he will cite the evidence which is available on the relative costs of bringing up children by lone parents and by couples; and if he will place copies of the evidence in the Library. [12457]

Mr. Andrew Mitchell

Extensive research has been carried out on the costs of children. A list of the published research findings includes:

  • Bayley, R. et al (Ed), (1995), Policies for families: work, poverty and resources, London, Family Policy Studies Centre.
  • Bradshaw J., (1993) Household Budgets and Living Standards, York; Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
  • Bradshaw, J., and Morgan, J., (1987), Budgeting on Benefit: The consumption of families on Social Security, London, Family Policy Studies Centre.
  • Buck, N. et al, (1994), Changing Households: The British Household Panel Study 1990–1992, ESRC, Colchester.
  • Dickens, R. et al, (1995), The cost of children and the welfare state, Social Policy Research Findings, December 1995, York, Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
  • Family Policy Studies Centre, (1995), Children in Britain, Family Report 2, London, Family Policy Studies Centre.
  • Field, F., (1985), What price a child? A historical review of the relative cost of dependants, London, Policy Studies Institute.
  • Ford, R., Marsh, A. and McKay, S., (1995), Changes in Lone Parenthood 1989 to 1993, DSS Research Series, Report no. 40, London, HMSO.
  • Marsh, A. and McKay, S., (1993), Families, Work and the Use of Childcare, Employment Gazette, August.
  • Middleton, S. et al, (1994), Family Fortunes, London, Child Poverty Action Group.
  • Oldfield, N., and Yu, A., (1993) The Cost of a Child, London, Child Poverty Action Group.
  • Oppenheim, C., (1990), The Cost of Child, London, Child Poverty Action Group.
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  • Oppenheim C., (1993), Poverty: The Facts, London, Child Poverty Action Group.
  • Piachaud, D., (1979), The Cost of a Child: A modern minimum, London, Child Poverty Action Group.
  • Roll, J., (1986), Babies and money: birth trends and costs, London, Family Policy Studies Centre.
  • Walker, R. et al, (1993), Mostly on the children, Working Paper 218, Centre for Research in Social Policy, University of Loughborough.

All the above are publicly available. Work sponsored by the Government has been placed in the Library.