HC Deb 22 June 1988 vol 135 cc596-7W
Mr. Nigel Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what was the aggregate disposable income in 1979, showing the median, the lowest and highest deciles, and the lower and upper quartiles for(a) all households in the United Kingdom and (b) for Greater London, in an adjusted form on the current basis, as if the housing benefit scheme had applied at that date, as provided for 1983 in the answer in the Official Report, 22 July 1987, columns 211–12;

(2) what was the aggregate disposable income in 1979 and 1981, showing the median, the lowest and highest deciles, and the lower and upper quartiles, for (a) all households in the United Kingdom and (b) for Greater London, in an adjusted form on the current basis, as if the housing benefit scheme had applied at that date, as provided for 1983 in the answer in the Official Report, 22 July 1987, columns 211–12.

Mr. Lee

It is not possible to produce estimates from the 1979 or 1981 family expenditure survey on the same basis as those provided for 1983, in theOfficial Report, 22 July 1987, at columns 211–212.