§ Dr. McDonaldasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) working families with children and (b) childless people in work had incomes below the tax threshold at the latest date for which information is available.
§ Mr. Norman Lamont[pursuant to his reply, 4 December 1986]: Information on weekly income in the 1984 family expenditure survey suggests that about a quarter of a million working families with children and 300,000 working childless couples or single people in the United Kingdom had incomes after personal allowances and mortgage interest relief below the tax threshold.
A "working" family is defined as one in which at least one adult is in full-time employment or self-employed.