HC Deb 08 March 2000 vol 345 cc728-9W
Mr. MacShane

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 20 December 1999,Official Report, column 333W, on low-income households, if he will publish tables as in the answer which show the position for households which do not include a self-employed adult. [112808]

Angela Eagle

The information is available for the years shown in the tables. The latest information relates to the financial year 1997–98.

Numbers of people in families where one or more adults were in paid work and where the income is below half contemporary

mean income

After housing costs
Million
Year Total people Total Children Total people in lone parent families Children in lone parent families Total people in couple families Children in couple families
FES
1981 1.6 0.8 0.1 0.1 1.4 0.8
1987 2.1 0.8 0.1 0.0 1.5 0.8
1988–89 2.3 0.9 0.2 0.1 1.6 0.8
1990–91 3.1 1.2 0.3 0.2 2.1 1.0
1991–92 3.2 1.3 0.3 0.2 2.1 1.1
1992–93 3.1 1.2 0.3 0.2 1.9 1.0
1993–94 3.0 1.2 0.4 0.2 1.9 1.0
1994–95 3.2 1.3 0.5 0.3 1.9 1.0
1995–96 3.4 1.4 0.5 0.3 2.0 1.0
FRS
1994–95 2.6 1.0 0.3 0.2 1.7 0.9
1995–96 2.8 1.1 0.3 0.2 1.7 0.9
1996–97 3.6 1.4 0.4 0.2 2.2 1.2
1997–98 3.8 1.5 0.5 0.3 2.3 1.2

Notes:

1. The information comes from the 'Households Below Average Income' (HBAI) series. The estimates are presented on household income both Before Housing Costs and After Housing Costs in line with HBAI conventions. All the estimates in the table relate to families with an adult in paid work rather than households with an adult in paid work, but exclude households where there is a full-time self-employed adult.

2. The column headed "Total people in couple families" does not include couples without children.

3. The estimates based on the Family Expenditure Survey (FES) are for the United Kingdom. For 1988–89 and subsequent years, two years' data have been combined to improve the robustness of the results. For 1994–95 onwards, estimates are available from the larger Family Resources Survey (FRS) and relate to single financial years. The FRS results are for Great Britain.