§ Mr. Clayasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish the distribution of aggregate disposable income of selected groups of households for 1979 and 1985 using the family expenditure surveys of 1979 and 1985 (table 25) on a comparable basis, taking into account the change in housing benefit and the introduction of mortgage interest relief at source.
§ Mr. LeeThe exact information requested is available only at disproportionate cost. However, provision was made in analysis of the 1983 family expenditure survey (when the introduction of the housing benefit scheme necessitated a change of income definition) to provide results on two bases. The figures show 1985 and 1983 distributions from the family expenditure survey on the current basis.
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Lowest decile £ Lower quartile £ Median £ Upper quartile £ Highest decile £ Greater London households 1983 47.94 75.84 142.61 231.57 324.46 1985 46.60 89.50 167.50 261.50 367.82 Data in this table are subject to sampling variation.