§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) if he will publish tables, similar to those in his Department's tax/benefit model table, showing net weekly spending power for each of a single wage married couple(a) with two children aged four and six years and (b) with three children aged three, eight and eleven years; earning (i) £60, (ii) £70, (iii) £80, (iv) £90, (v) £100, (vi) £110, (vii) £120, (viii) £130, (ix) £140, (x) £150, (xi) £160 and (xii) £170 under the benefit system as uprated in April 1989;
(2) if he will publish figures, similar to those in his Department's tax/benefit model tables, showing net weekly spending power for a lone mother with two children aged four and six years under the benefit system as uprated in April 1989 and in each of following circumstances (a) not working, after one year on benefits, (b) earning £20 a week from part-time working and (c) working full-time and earning (i) £60, (ii) £70, (iii) £80, (iv) £90, (v) £100, (vi) £110 and (vii) £120 per week;
(3) if he will publish a table showing the levels of gross earnings in April 1989 at which (a) a single householder, (b) a married couple, (c) a married couple with two children aged four and six years and (d) a single parent with one child, aged three years, will lose housing benefit, assuming full take-up of family credit, average rent and rates and other assumptions, as in his reply to the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Clay) Official Report, 1 December 1987, column 566;
(4) what was the real value of the basic retirement pension for a single person and for a married couple in November 1979 and April 1988, at April 1988 prices.
§ Mr. Peter LloydI shall write to the hon. Member.