§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North, Official Report, 13th July 1977, columns 166–7, if he will now publish figures comparing tax thresholds as proposed in his statement on 15th July with the new family income supplement entitlement levels and with the new supplementary benefit levels including an element for rent and rates due to be introduced in November next, for each of a single person, a married couple, and a married couple with each of one, two, three and four children; and if he will include within the figures for tax thresholds, where there are dependent children, the relevant value of tax-free child benefit.
§ Mr. Robert Sheldon,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 21st July 1977; Vol, 935, c. 712–3], circulated the following details:
The figures for January 1978 are as follows:—