§ Mr. Fatchettasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has made any assessment of how many low-income families in (a) the Leeds, Central constituency and (b) the Leeds metropolitan district council area will be worse off when the new family credit is introduced.
§ Mr. PortilloI regret that it is not possible to make estimates on such a localised basis. On the illustrative assumptions in the technical annex to the White Paper "Reform of Social Security" (Cmnd 9690), family credit would be expected to reach about double the number of families now helped by family income supplement, and in all but a few families the amount of family credit payable would be greater than FIS. For the overall effect of the social security changes on the disposable income of working families (on the illustrative assumptions) I refer the hon. Member to tables 12(ii) of the technical annex.