§ Ms CorstonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list what information in relation to low-income families is available for the statements in the United Kingdom's first report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in respect of(a) the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual and social development, and (b) the level of real disposable income of all types of families with children in 1979 and currently.
§ Mr. BurtInformation on the social security benefits available for low incomes families described in the United Kingdom report is available in leaflet FB27 "Bringing Up Children?"
A recent research report, "Support for Children, A Comparison of Arrangements in Fifteen Countries", published by this Department in 1993, provides a comparative analysis of United Kingdom support for children against that of other countries.
The latest estimates of changes in the real disposable income since 1979 for various family types can be found in "Households Below Average Income 1979–1990/91", published in June 1993.
184WCopies of all of those publications are in the Library.