§ Mr. Tebbitasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the gross wage of each item of deduction used to reach the take-home pay of a worker on average industrial earnings having two young children under 11 years of age (a) in December 1974, expressed both in then current terms and updated to April 1977 terms and (b) in April 1977 in the current terms.
§ Mr. Robert Sheldon,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 30th June 1977; Vol. 934, c. 313], gave the following information:
The figures are as follows:
The estimate of 845,000 is made up of 220,000 earning wives and 625,000 others.