§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will compare the net weekly spending power of a man with a wife and two children, aged four and six years, if he earns, or has previously earned, £100 per week (a) when in work and (b) when in receipt of unemployment benefit, with his net weekly spending power when dependent upon supplementary benefit in the form of the reply to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North, 27 October 1980, Official Report, column 193.
§ Dr. BoysonFor the information requested I refer my hon. Friend to the DHSS tax/benefit model tables, a copy of which is in the Library.