§ Mr. Peter Bottomleyasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the organisations which, in their response to the Green Paper on the taxation of husband and wife, advocated a transfer of resources from the married man's tax allowance into child benefits; if he will list those which advocated a transfer of resources into other cash benefits; in each case, what proportion of all organisations responding to the Green Paper these represented; and what proportion of the total number of organisations and individuals responding to the Green Paper advocated a transfer of resources from the married man's allowance into child benefits.
§ Mr. WakehamMost organisations and individuals have submitted their views in a most helpful way. It would not be appropriate to categorise the views of individual bodies on a crude "in favour—not in favour" basis on particular issues relating to the Green Paper, because this could be misleading and could misrepresent the views of individual organisations. In broad terms, however, about half of the organisations which responded to the Green Paper put their main emphasis on schemes for the independent taxation of husband and wife that involved a transfer of resources from the married man's tax allowance into child benefit or other forms of cash benefit. Among the 600 or so responses from individuals the proportion in favour was, roughly, 10 per cent.