HC Deb 14 July 1994 vol 246 c772W
25. Mr. Wicks

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many families with children, and what proportion of all such families, live in households headed by one parent; and what percentage of those receive income support.

Mr. Ancram

The 1991 census of population enumerated 38,060 households with dependent children headed by one parent in Northern Ireland. This represents 17.6 per cent. of all households with dependent children. The figure for the percentage of families headed by one parent in receipt of income support is not available but as at May 1992 regardless of status as head of a household or not, there were 35,380 one parent families in receipt of income support.