§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State if he will publish a table, using the same basic assumptions as in the reply to the hon. Member for Norfolk North, Official Report, 30 November 1978, c. 298, showing the net weekly spending power during the first six months of unemployment of each of a single person, a married couple, married couples with two children aged four and six years, and 15 and 16 years, and a married couple with four children aged six, eight, 12 and 16 years, but assuming that unemployment benefit were taxable, that previous earnings were £55, £75 and £95, and taking into account the increase in child benefit to £4 last April.
§ Mrs. ChalkerI regret that this information could not be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.