§ Sir Brandon Rhys Williams(1) asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will estimate, using the family finances survey, the number of households and the number of children living in house holds with incomes (a) below supplementary benefit level, (b) at supplementary benefit level, (c) at between supplementary benefit level and 120 per cent. of supplementary benefit level and (d) at between 120 per cent. and 140 per cent. of supplementary benefit level; and if he will distinguish between pensioner households, one-parent households and two-parent households in and out of work;
(2) further to his reply to the right hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley) and the hon. Members for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) and for West 213W Stirlingshire, (Mr. Canavan) Official Report, 10 June, c. 133, whether information is now available from the family finances survey showing uptake of means-tested benefits other than family income supplement.
§ Mrs. ChalkerRelevant information is not expected to be available from the family finances survey until later in the year. It will be confined, as was the survey, to families, with children, whose incomes were low.