§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table in the Official Report showing the total weekly value, in cash and in kind, of benefits that are within one week available to a citizen of the Irish Republic, aged 30 years, unemployed, with a wife and six children, aged between 7 and 15 years, who has no means of financial support when he lands in the United Kingdom, assuming he is provided with a council house at average cost; and what the same man would receive in each of the other EEC countries, respectively.
§ Mr. OrmeA national of an EEC country who goes to another member State and registers there for employment would normally be entitled to receive for up to three months continued unemployment benefit and family allowances of the EEC country in which he was last insured. Otherwise, a citizen of the Irish Republic, in the circumstances quoted, would, on the assumptions shown—including having six children—and if registered as available for employment or if incapable of work, be able to claim supplementary benefit of £59.25 weekly and free school meals valued at £4.50 weekly. If benefit were awarded the usual arrangements for assisting him to get work would apply. Comparable information about his entitlement elsewhere in the Community cannot be provided; social assistance is not administered centrally in the other EEC countries and benefits could therefore vary according to the locality of residence. Assumptions (i) two children aged 7–10, two aged 11–12 and two aged 13–15; (ii) an average rent addition for an unemployed claimant; (iii) application of the scales of requirement which came into force on 15th November 1976.