§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will compare the net weekly spending power of a man with a wife and two children, aged four and six years, if he earns or has previously earned £100 per week (a) when in work and (b) when in receipt of unemployment benefit with his net weekly spending power when dependent upon supplementary benefit using updated assumptions, as in the reply to the hon. Member for Norfolk North, 27 October 1980, Official Report, column 193.
§ Mrs. ChalkerI shall let my hon. Friend have a reply as soon as possible.