§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will take steps to publish more detailed analyses of the family finances survey of low income families than that provided in the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys report "Family Finances".
§ Mr. NewtonI have today placed in the Library copies of "The Living Standards of the Unemployed: Findings from the Family Finances Survey" prepared by the social policy research unit at York university.
Analytical work directed at the incidence of low income, the characteristics of non-claimants to benefits, and factors resulting in people moving out of low income is currently being undertaken within the Department.
Work directed at the living standards of unemployed people, economies of scale-enlarged families, domestic fuel expenditure, labour market participation of lone parents, and the poverty trap has been commissioned, or requested, from outside resources.
Completion dates for all this work are uncertain, but when it is received I shall consider whether its results can be made available.