§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to what level per week child benefit could be raised if the married man's tax allowance were reduced to the rate of a single man's for men below retirement age and the savings allocated to raising the levels of child benefit.
§ Mr. Moore[pursuant to his reply, 6 February 1985, c. 592]: If the changes had applied in 1984–85, the increase in child benefit would have been about £5.50 per week. It has been assumed that scale rates of supplementary benefit for dependent children would also have been increased by a similar amount.