§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if she will list in the Official Report the long-term national insurance rate for a single person, married couple, married couple with two children under 11 years of age, married couple with four children two under 11, two over 11 years of age, including average rent payments as a percentage of average net earnings for each year since 1954;
(2) if she will list in the Official Report the short-term national insurance rate for a single person, married couple, married couple with two children under 11 years of age, married couple with four children two under 11, two over 11 years of age, including average rent payments as a percentage of average net earnings for each year since 1954.
§ Mr. O'MalleyThe information requested by the hon. Member for a single person, a married couple and a married couple with two children aged under 11 is set out in the following table. For a married couple with four children the information in the table for the complete range of years relates not to a family of two children aged under 11 and two children aged over 11, as requested by the hon. Member, but to one with four children aged under 11. This is because the information was readily accessible on an all four children aged under 11 basis, while considerable additional expenditure of time and effort would have been required to assemble it on the age basis in the hon. Member's Question for all the years in the period. The information requested is, however, given in the relevant columns of the table at five-yearly intervals, starting with 1964 and ending with 1974, for four children aged 3, 8, 12 and 14 respectively. Records are not kept of the average rent paid by national insurance beneficiaries.
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STANDARD RATES OF SHORT AND LONG-TERM NATIONAL INSURANCE BENEFITS AS A PERCENTAGE OF NET AVERAGE EARNINGS* National insurance benefit Year (October)† Single person Married couple Short-term Married couple with two children aged under 11 Married couple with four children aged under 11 Married couple with four children aged 3, 8, 12 and 14 Single person Married couple Long-term Married couple with two children aged under 11 Married couple with four children aged under 11 Married couple with four children aged 3, 8, 12 and 14 1954 … … … … 18.7 29.3 36.7 43.1 43.1 18.7 29.3 36.7 43.1 43.1 1955 … … … … 21.3 32.4 39.4 46.2 21.3 32.4 39.4 46.2 1956 … … … … 20.1 30.7 37.1 44.4 20.1 30.7 37.1 44.4 1957 … … … … 19.2 29.3 35.5 42.2 19.2 29.3 35.5 42.2 1958 … … … … 23.9 35.9 44.0 52.4 23.9 35.9 44.0 52.4 1959 … … … … 22.4 33.9 41.9 49.8 49.8 22.4 33.9 41.9 49.8 49.8 1960 … … … … 21.1 31.9 39.5 46.7 21.1 31.9 39.5 46.7 1961 … … … … 23.6 35.8 44.3 52.3 23.6 35.8 44.3 52.3 1962 … … … … 22.9 34.8 43.0 50.8 22.9 34.8 43.0 50.8 1963 … … … … 25.6 38.8 47.4 56.0 25.6 38.8 47.4 56.0 1964 … … … … 24.0 36.5 44.6 52.0 52.0 24.0 36.5 44.6 52.0 52.0 1965 … … … … 27.0 41.2 49.3 56.8 27.0 41.2 49.3 56.8 1966 … … … … 26.2 40.1 48.0 55.2 26.2 40.1 48.0 55.2 1967 … … … … 28.4 43.4 51.8 58.9 28.4 43.4 51.8 58.9 1968 … … … … 26.6 40.8 50.6 57.4 26.6 40.8 50.6 57.4 1969 … … … … 27.5 42.4 52.8 60.2 59.3 27.5 42.4 52.8 60.2 59.3 1970 … … … … 25.0 38.4 48.3 55.6 25.0 38.4 48.3 55.6 1971 … … … … 27.1 41.8 51.8 59.1 27.1 41.8 60.3 74.3 1972 … … … … 25.7 39.8 50.4 58.4 25.7 39.8 58.4 72.9 1973 … … … … 24.8 38.7 49.5 58.1 26.1 40.7 60.4 76.3 1974 … … … … 25.6 39.5 50.2 58.5 57.9 29.7 45.5 67.1 84.4 83.5 1975‡ … … … … 27.3 42.3 53.6 62.5 32.7 49.8 73.3 92.3 * Estimated earnings of male, adult, full-time manual workers based on the Department of Employment's October inquiry into the earnings of manual workers employed in manufacturing and certain other industries plus family allowances less tax and national insurance contributions. † National insurance benefit rates used for 1969 and 1975 are those for November. ‡ Average earnings for October 1975 are provisional.