HC Deb 31 March 1999 vol 328 c833W
Mr. Steinberg

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what percentage of children aged(a) under five years and (b) five to 15 years from two-parent families in the United Kingdom were in families in receipt of Family Credit in each of the last five years. [78279]

Mr. Timms

The information is in the table.

Children in two parent families receiving Family Credit: Great Britain
Under 5 5 to 15
Thousand Percentage Thousand Percentage
May 1994 238 7.6 451 7.1
May 1995 258 8.6 486 7.7
May 1996 286 9.6 555 8.8
May 1997 307 10.0 579 9.1
May 1998 293 9.6 566 9.0

Notes:

1. Numbers are based on a 5 per cent. sample of Family Credit awards and as such are subject to a degree of sampling error.

2. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest thousand.

3. Children are defined as aged under 16.

Sources:

1. Family Credit 5 per cent. sample.

2. Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey Household Datasets.