§ Sir Brandon Rhys Williamsasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish figures, using November 1984 benefit rates, and tabulating net weekly spending power for a lone mother with two children aged six and eight years living in local authority accommodation and paying average local authority rent and rates, in each of the following circumstances (a) not in paid work, drawing long-term supplementary benefit, (b) working part-time earning £24 a week and drawing long-term supplementary benefit and (c) working full-time with £25 weekly work expenses and earning the average for female manual earners, and also three-quarters and one-and-a-half times average for female manual earners.
§ Mr. WhitneyThe information requested is given in the following table:
November 1984 Lone mother with two children aged six and eight years Net weekly spending power £
(a) In receipt of long-term supplementary benefit 60.10 (b) Working part-time and earning £24 net a week and in receipt of long-term supplementary benefit 72.10 (c) Working full-time with £25 weekly work expenses earning: (i) Average for female manual earners; 64.24 (ii) Three-quarters average for female manual earners 65.92 (iii) One-and-a-half times average for female manual earners 82.09 Notes:
(1) Average gross earnings for female manual earners are assumed to be £96.92 a week;
(2) The general assumptions in the April 1984 DHSS tax-benefit model tables apply except that rent is assumed to be £15.60 a week and general rates £5.85 a week.