HC Deb 01 July 1980 vol 987 cc497-8W
Mr. Race

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Wood Green on 25 March, how the 70,000 two-parent families excluded in his previous answer are divided into the three main groups; over pension age, not living in a private household and sick or unemployed for less than three months.

Mrs. Chalker

Of the estimated total of 227,000 two-parent families receiving supplementary benefit at December 1977, over 70,000 families consisted of about 3,000 where the head of the family was over pension age; a small number not living in private households; and about 67,000 where the head of the family had been sick or unemployed for less than three months.