§ Ms CorstonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will provide statistics on the basis of the latest analysis of households below average income, for the long-term sick and those on disability benefit to correspond with statistical data for pensioners, recipients of income support and unemployment given in tables A4 and A5 in the latest households below average income report.
§ Mr. Burt[pursuant to his reply, 19 July 1993, c. 71–72]: I am advised that the reply contained incomplete information. The correct information is as follows:
172WThe households below average income (HBAI) dataset, the family expenditure survey (FES), does not identify all long-term sick or disabled people, and its identification of receipt of disability benefits is imperfect. The estimates are susceptible to these imperfections as well as sampling errors. The results reported in the tables may, therefore, reflect changes in the categories of long-term sick or disabled people identified in the FES, as well as changes in the incomes of such people.Where figures are particularly uncertain due to sampling error and where the confidence intervals exceed pre-determined limits the estimates are bracketed or omitted. Further information about the effects of sampling errors can be found in appendix 5 of HBAI, a copy of which is in the Library.The figures in the tables are presented in line with tables A4 and A5 in Households Below Average Income 1979 to 1990–91.
Changes in real income for long-term sick and those on disability benefits Real changes in median incomes 1979 to 1990–91 (Percentage) Income before housing costs Bottom quintile Second quintile Third quintile Whole group (mean) Before housing costs Long-term sick or receiving disability benefits (4) (14) (*)2 26 Income after housing costs Long-term sick or receiving disability benefits (*)3 (14) (*)4 30 Notes: 1 People who reported receipt of invalidity benefit, severe disablement allowance, attendance allowance or mobility allowance or people not in work who reported long-term sickness or disability. 2. 95 per cent. confidence interval is +9 to +30. 3. 95 per cent. confidence interval is -7 to +15. 4. 95 per cent. confidence interval is +12 to +36.
Money values of quintile medians for long-term sick and those on disability benefits in April 1993 prices (£ per week equivalised) Bottom quintile Second quintile Third quintile Whole group (mean) 1979 Before housing costs Long-term sick or Receiving disability benefits 92 113 135 148 1990–91 Long-term sick or Receiving disability benefits 96 129 162 186 1979 After housing costs Long-term sick or Receiving disability benefits 76 96 117 128 1990–91 Long-term sick or Receiving disability benefits 79 109 144 166 Note:
1. All estimates are subject to sampling error—see table on income growth.