§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will estimate the percentage of all (a) two-parent and (b) single-parent families drawing supplementary benefits for 1975–76 and state similar figures for 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74 and 1974–75.
§ Mr. O'MalleyThe approximate percentages of two-parent families drawing sunnlemenfary benefit was as follows:
Percentage 1971 Percentage 1972 Percentage 1973 Percentage 1974 3 3 2 2 Corresponding figures for one-parent families are not available, but it is estimated that in 1971 the proportion of such 351W families receiving supplementary benefit was almost 40 per cent.
Information relating to 1975 is not yet available.