§ Sir Brandon Rhys Williamsasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table showing for 1971, 1981 and the latest date for which estimates are available the number of households in the United Kingdom, with the figures broken down to distinguish between no family, one family and two or more family households, as in "Social Trends" no. 15 table 2.5 for Great Britain, but also showing whether the married couples and lone parents have one, two, three or more dependent children, with the latter defined as children aged under 16 years or 16 to 18 years in full-time education.
§ Mr. Whitney[pursuant to his reply, 26 Novernber 1985 c. 542–44]Further statistics on the numbers of households are now available, showing the proportionate breakdown of households by type for the United Kingdom as a whole in 1983. These are comparable to the figures for Great Britain in the last column of my reply on 26 November and take account of the results of the Continuous Household Survey in Northern Ireland.
The figures are as follows:
1983 Households One family households United Kingdom Percentage Married couple only 26 Married couple with one dependent child 11 Married couple with two dependent children 13 Married couple with three or more dependent children 6 Married couple with non-dependent children only 8 Lone parent with one dependent child 2 Lone parent with two dependent children 2 Lone parent with three or more dependent children 1 Lone parent with non-dependent children only 4 Two or more family households 1 No family households 26 Total households 100