§ Mr. Meacherasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if a single mother, whether divorced, separated or unmarried, who receives maintenance payments from her ex-husband or the father of her child of, for example, £4 per week and who earns £7 a week, would be entitled under his current tax credit proposals to the married credit plus the child tax credits for her children.
§ Mr. NottOn the assumptions made in the Green Paper she would not come within the tax credit scheme unless her earnings amounted to £8 a week or more;268W but the paper makes it clear that the position of parents with single-handed responsibility for children will need to be considered in relation to the work of the Finer Committee on one-parent families.