§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will update the answer given to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull Central (Mr. McNamara), Official Report, 7th April 1977, columns 664–6.
§ Mr. OrmeThe corresponding figures for 1976 are in the following table:
tax allowances only and assumes that all income taken into account for FIS was taxable. The overall effect of these qualifications is likely to mean an over-estimate of the number of tax paying FIS families.
The latest available estimate of take-up based on a DHSS analysis of the family expenditure survey, is for 1975 when 60,000 families—about three-quarters of those eligible—were receiving the benefit.