HC Deb 04 April 1977 vol 929 cc344-6W
Mr. Marten

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a breakdown of the net private sector invisible earnings by trading the areas, used in the Department of Trade monthly balance of payments statements Table 4, for the years 1971 to 1976.

Mr. Robert Sheldon

I regret that, for practical and conceptual reasons, information on invisible earnings is not available in the detail requested. Estimates of earnings in the years 1973 to 1975 from the other countries of the European Communities as a whole have however been prepared for the categories of invisibles usually identified in the balance of payments accounts. The estimates are pub-

Net weekly value of family allowance as a percentage of average male manual earnings for a married couple with two children under 11 where earnings are the stated percentage of average earnings
Year 100 per cent. 60 per cent. 40 per cent.
1946–47 4.1 4.1 4.1
1947–48 3.9 3.9 3.9
1948–49 3.6 3.6 3.6
1949–50 3.5 3.5 3.5
1950–51 3.3 3.3 3.3
1951–52 2.6 3.0 3.0
1952–53 3.8 3.8 3.8
1953–54 3.9 4.2 4.2
1954–55 3.5 3.9 3.9
1955–56 3.3 3.6 3.6
1956–57 3.1 3.4 3.4
1957–58 2.6 3.2 3.2
1958–59 2.5 3.1 3.1
1959–60 2.5 3.0 3.0
1960–61 2.3 2.8 2.8
1961–62 2.2 2.6 2.6
1962–63 2.1 2.5 2.5
1963–64 1.8 2.4 2.4
1964–65 1.7 2.2 2.2
1965–66 1.6 2.0 2.0
1966–67 1.5 2.0 2.0
1967–68 1.4 1.9 1.9
1968–69 1.2 2.6 3.6
1969–70 1.1 1.9 3.6
1970–71 1.0 2.4 3.4
1971–72 1.1 2.6 3.1
1972–73 1.0 2.7 2.7
1973–74 0.7 0.7 2.4
1974–75 0.6 0.6 2.1
1975–76 1.1 1.1 2.7
1976–77 1.0 1.0 2.3

Family allowance deduction—"clawback"—has been take into account where appropriate.

Where the weekly amount of family allowance payable was increased during

lished, together with a description of the principles of estimation involved, in Annex 6 of "United Kingdom Balance of Payments 1965–75."