HC Deb 26 January 1981 vol 997 c305W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has received the communication given to the hon. Member for Newham, North-West giving evidence that one of his constituents has a legal wife and common law wife with 39 children and is unemployed; and what a man in this situation has been, or is able, to claim in Social Security payments, child allowance and other payments from State funds in any given week.

Mrs. Chalker

I will write to the hon. Member.