§ Mr. Ernie Robertsasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, in view of the proposed closures of St.
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Thousands One-parent families Two-parent families Paragraph 4 Supplementary benefit recipients floated off who will gain from the switch to housing benefit 5 10 I regret that it is not possible to provide a breakdown of the figures mentioned in paragraph 5, 6 and 7. It is also not possible to provide an estimate of the total gainers and losers from the scheme because a number of interrelated changes are happening at the same time and the statistical model is not sensitive enough to bring them all together. The figures quoted above under "Paragraph 2" show gainers and losers due to taper changes in April 1983, and I am able to provide an estimated breakdown of these losers according to the amount of loss as follows:
Thousands One-parent families Two-parent families Weekly loss in pence: £0.01 to £0.25 30 125 £0.26 to £0.50 20 135 £0.51 to £0.75 35 260