One-parent Families

HC Deb 30 November 1976 vol 921 cc94-5W

27. Mr. Ovenden

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will now introduce a special social security benefit for one-parent families.

Mr. Orme

I would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn and Hatfield (Mrs. Hayman) on 27th October.—[Vol. 918, c.287–8.]

33. Mr. Hooley

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the progress of implementation of the recommendations of the Finer Report in so far as they affect his Department.

Mr. Orme

I would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith) on 26th October—[Vol. 918, c.111–12.]—to which I can now add that the increase in the earnings disregard from £4 to £6 net for one-parent families receiving supplementary benefit and that the uprating of benefits in general came into effect in the week of 15th November.