HC Deb 07 December 1989 vol 163 c343W
Mr. Squire

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many families with children with taxable incomes below the tax threshold are in receipt of family credit.

Mr. Scott

On the latest available information there are about 85.000 cases where income tax was not being deducted from the earnings of the main earner at the time of the claim for family credit.