§ Mr. David Steelasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will print in the OFFICIAL REPORT the total number of families claiming the family income supplement for each quarter since the scheme's inception; and if she will denote for each quarter the nunmber of wage-stopped claimants.
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NUMBER OF FAMILIES RECEIVING FIS BY FAMILY TYPE AND NUMBER OF CHILDREN (thousands) Amount of FIS Family type and number of children Up to 0.40 0.50–0.90 1.00–1.40 1.50–1.90 2.00–2.40 2.50–2.90 3.00–3.40 Married couple: 1 child … … … … 0.6 1.6 1.1 0.8 0.8 0.6 0.6 2 children … … … … 0.8 2.5 1.6 1.9 0.8 0.6 0.3 3 children … … … … 0.7 1.7 1.8 1.4 1.3 0.6 0.4 4 children … … … … 0.3 1.5 1.3 1.0 0.9 0.5 0.6 5 children … … … … 0.2 0.5 0.7 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.3 6 or more children … … … … 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 All married couples … … … … 2.8 8.1 6.8 6.2 4.6 3.1 2.5 All lone men … … … … * 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 Lone Women: 1 child … … … … 1.1 2.5 2.7 3.3 3.2 2.8 2.4 2 children … … … … 0.4 1.0 1.2 1.0 1.3 1.1 0.9 3 children … … … … 0.1 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.2 4 or more children … … … … * 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 All lone women … … … … 1.8 4.1 4.7 4.9 5.2 4.3 3.8 All families … … … … 4.5 12.3 11.6 11.2 9.9 7.5 6.5
§ Mr. O'MalleyFollowing is the number of families receiving family income supplement:
28th September 1971 … 55,000 28th December 1971 … 71,000 28th March 1972 … 68,000 27th June 1972 … 100,000 26th September 1972 … 92,000 26th December 1972 … 82,000 27th March 1973 … 78,000 26th June 1973 … 97,000 25th September 1973 … 106,000 25th December 1973 … 95,000 26th March 1974 … 81,000 Information about the number of families receiving family income supplement and supplementary benefit which is wage-stopped is available only on an annual basis and is given below:
SB/FIS recipients Number of whom are wage stopped November 1971 … 1,500 500 November 1972 … 3,000 1,000 November 1973 … 3,500 500
§ Mr. David Steelasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will print in the OFFICIAL REPORT information showing the value of family income supplement payments, by family size and in units of 25p.
§ Mr. O'MalleyAs family income supplement awards are paid to the nearest multiple of 10p it is not possible to provide information about payments in units of 25p. The following table relates to the end of March 1974.
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(thousands) Amount of FIS Family type and number of children 3.50–3.90 4.00–4.40 4.50–4.90 5.00–5.40 5.50–5.90 Over 5.90 All‡ Married couple: 1 child … … … … 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 N/A N/A 7.1 2 children … … … … 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.4 N/A N/A 9.7 3 children … … … … 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 8.9 4 children … … … … 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 * 0.1 6.9 5 children … … … … 0.2 0.2 0.1 * * 0.1 3.8 6 or more children … … … … 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 3.5 All married couples … … … … 1.6 1.3 1.0 1.1 0.2 0.5 39.9 All lone men … … … … * * * 0.1 * * 1.1 Lone Women: 1 child … … … … 1.7 1.5 1.3 2.2 N/A N/A 24.7 2 children … … … … 0.7 0.6 0.4 0.7 N/A N/A 9.3 3 children … … … … 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 3.8 4 or more children … … … … 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 2.1 All lone women … … … … 2.8 2.7 2.2 3.2 0.1 0.4 40.1 All families … … … … 4.4 4.0 3.2 4.4 0.4 0.9 81.0 * Less than 0.05. ‡ Due to rounding the columns may not add up to the totals shown