§ Miss Richardsonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families in employment were not paying tax because they had earnings below the tax threshold before the Budget, or at the 721W latest date for which the information is available; and how many of these had children.
§ Mr. Peter ReesNo precise information is available. Results from the family expenditure survey for 1977 indicate that at that time about 200,000 taxpayers, including single persons and counting married couples as one, in full-time employment were below the tax threshold. Of these about one-third had children.