§ Ms BuckTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the average increase in the income of(a) lone parent families and (b) couples with children in each income decile, resulting from an increase of (i) £10, (ii) £20 and (iii) £30 in child benefit and the family premium in income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit for each family in which there is at least one child aged three or under. [1567]
§ Malcolm WicksI have been asked to reply.
The information requested is not available.
§ Ms BuckTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the impact on the numbers of children in poverty in(a) lone parent families and (b) couples with children in each income decile, resulting from an increase of (i) £10, (ii) £15 and (iii) £20 in the rate of child benefit and the child allowances in income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit for each child aged three or under. [1571]
§ Malcolm WicksI have been asked to reply.
It is not possible to measure accurately the impact on child poverty of individual changes to the tax and benefit system. The margins of error surrounding these estimates are too large. Taken as a whole, the personal tax and benefit measures introduced over the last parliament are estimated to lift over 1.2 million children out of relative income poverty.
§ Ms BuckTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the average increase in the income of(a) lone parent families and (b) couples with children in each income decile, resulting from an increase of (i) £10, 498W (ii) £15 and (iii) £20 in the rate of child benefit and the child allowances in income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit, for each child aged three or under. [1570]
§ Malcolm WicksI have been asked to reply.
The information re quested is not available.
§ Ms BuckTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the impact on the numbers of children in poverty in(a) lone parent families and (b) couples with children in each income decile, resulting from an increase of (i) £10, (ii) £20 and (iii) £30 in child benefit and the family premium in income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit, for each family in which there is at least one child aged three or under. [1568]
§ Malcolm WicksI have been asked to reply.
It is not possible to measure accurately the impact on child poverty of individual changes to the tax and benefit system. The margins of error surrounding these estimates are too large. Taken as a whole, the personal tax and benefit measures introduced over the last parliament are estimated to lift over 1.2 million children out of relative income poverty.