§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to what level per week child benefit could be raised if both (a) it were taxed and the proceeds of taxation were allocated to raising its level and (b) 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, and on the assumption that the wife's earned income allownce could not be set against child benefit if it was brought into tax, the increase in child benefit would have been about £10 per week. It has been assumed that scale rates of supplementary benefit for dependent children would also have been increased by a similar amount.