One-parent Families

HC Deb 11 July 1978 vol 953 c462W

29. Mrs. Hayman

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is satisfied with the level of income support for one-parent families.

Mr. Orme

No. This is why the Government have proposed a number of improvements in the social security field which will produce a very significant rise in the level of income support for one-parent families—namely, increases of child benefit in November this year and in April 1979; doubling of the one-parent family premium in November; and increases of widowed mother's allowance, supplementary benefit and other social security benefits which help one-parent families, also in November.