§ Sir Ian GilmourTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Bournemouth, West (Mr. Butterfill) of 3 July,Official Report, column 41, if he will give a breakdown of his figure of 3 million children getting an extra 50p a week, showing how the figure is split between recipients of income support and of family credit, how it is distributed between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and giving the percentage of children in each region who are affected.
§ Mr. Peter LloydOn the basis of the assumptions underlying the Government's expenditure plans (Cmnd. 615), it is estimated that in the year 1989–90, 0.8 million children in families in receipt of family credit and 2.2 million children in families in receipt of income support in Great Britain will receive an extra 50p per week in their child allowances above the normal uprating increase. I regret that it is not possible to provide statistically reliable estimates of how these children are distributed among families in England, Scotland and Wales.