Family Income Supplement

HC Deb 27 October 1980 vol 991 c171W

Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are the latest figures for the number of (a) one-parent families and (b) two-parent families in receipt of family income supplement; in each case, what are the average payments; and how many families receive

ESTIMATES OF FAMILIES IN RECEIPT OF FIS AT THE END OF JULY 1980
	One-parent families	Great Britain Two-parent families
Numbers of families receiving FIS	51.000*	38,000*
Numbers of families receiving maximum weekly payments of FIS	5,000	3,500
Average weekly FIS payments	£7.66	£6.60
* Rounded to nearest thousand.