§ Mr. Squireasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide an estimate from the research carried out by his Department of the proportion of those families, who will not be given the right to opt for weekly child benefit payments under the proposals contained in Cmnd. 8106, who would opt for weekly payments if they were given the right to do so.
§ Mr. PrenticeIt is not possible to make such a estimate. The findings of a survey about this among women with dependant children are summarised on pages 30–38 of Annex II to Cmnd. 8106.