HC Deb 01 March 1984 vol 55 cc337-8W
Mr. Rooker

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services according to the 1981 "Family Expenditure Survey", how many families with children were living on incomes below the supplementary benefit level, on supplementary benefit and above supplementary benefit but within 40 per cent. of it; and how many children were living in these families at each income level.

Dr. Boyson

For the information requested I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Dunfermline, East (Mr. Brown) on 14 December 1983, at c.504, and to the tables "Low Income Families—1981" a copy of which is lodged in the Library of the House.