HC Deb 30 June 1987 vol 118 c77W
60. Mr. Greg Knight

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many low income families will benefit from the new family credit when it is introduced in 1988.

Mr. Scott

On the basis of the illustrative amounts in the technical annex to the White Paper "Reform of Social Security" (Cmnd. 9691), published in 1985, around 410,000 families would receive the credit.