§ Mr. Tebbitasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many families he estimates are currently worse off as a 193W result of the introduction of child benefit and the associated tax changes.
§ Mr. OrmeAs a result of the proposals announced by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget Statement on 29th March—[Vol. 929, c. 279–86]—some of the relatively few families who would have been worse off from April 1977 will no longer be so. It is not possible to estimate the numbers of those who, depending on their particular circumstances, will, as is inevitable in a major reform in the structure of family support, be worse off.