Family Income Supplement

HC Deb 25 November 1987 vol 123 cc241-2W

Rev. Martin Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the number of people in Northern Ireland and the number of dependants covered thereby claiming family income supplement in 1979 and at the latest available date.

Mr. Needham

The information is as follows:

Year	Number of families receiving FIS	Number of child dependants
1979 (December)	7,899	27,479
1987 (May)	14,890	40,973