HC Deb 23 June 1992 vol 210 cc139-40W
Mr. Wallace

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what progress is being made with the investigation into the position of family credit applications by self-employed persons; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Burt

The research being undertaken by the social policy research unit at York university into family credit and the self-employed is a multi-staged exercise. The draft report on that part of the study relating to the method of the assessment of income from self-employment is expected during the summer. The draft final report of the whole study is expected in spring 1993.