§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the average income in 1960, 1970 and 1974 and at the latest date for which information is available, both net and gross, of the following: (a) a married man with no children. (b) a married man with one child, (c) a married man with two children, (d) a single pensioner, (e) a married pensioner, (f) an unmarried manual industrial worker, (g) a married manual industrial worker with no children, (h) a married industrial worker with one child, (i) a married manual worker with two children, (j) an unmarried non-manual worker, (k) a married non-manual worker with no children, (l) a married non-manual worker with one child, and (m) a married non-manual worker with two children.
§ Mr. Booth:The available information which comes from the Family Expenditure Survey is given in the following table. The figures are subject to sampling variation.
AVERAGE GROSS INCOME OF HEAD OF HOUSEHOLDS 1970 1973 £ £ Household comprising (a) One man, one woman 24.96 35.04 (b) One man, one woman, one child 31.93 46.56 (c) One man, one woman, two children 34.19 48.91 Pensioner households (d) One person 7.37 9.95 (e) Two persons 7.88 10.76 Estimates of the net income of individual household members cannot be provided from the results of the household survey. The figures provided are for heads of household groups, where such are available, most nearly corresponding to those of the question. Information is not available for 1960 nor as yet, for 1974. Pensioner households are those where at least three-quarters of the household income comes from national insurance retirement or similar pensions including payments made in supplement to or in place of such pensions.