Families with Children

HC Deb 06 November 1989 vol 159 c430W

Mr. Squire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families with children fall below the tax threshold.

Mr. Lilley

[holding answer 2 November 1989]: In 1989–90, it is estimated that some 1.6 million families with children have taxable incomes below the income tax threshold. The estimate is based on a projection of the 1986 family expenditure survey and is therefore provisional.