HC Deb 30 June 1994 vol 245 c675W
29. Mr. Gunnell

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what arrangements he has made for the market testing of the office dealing with the tax returns of the Royal Family.

Mr. Dorrell

The Inland Revenue's current market testing programme consists of typing, secretarial, information technology and ancillary support services. If such services were to be transferred to a private sector organisation, the Inland Revenue would remain responsible for continuing to ensure proper standards of privacy and confidentiality for all citizens. Confidentiality is not a

Average equivalised disposable income by household type and by quintile groups
£ million
1992 Quintile groups of all households ranked by equivalised disposable income
Household type Bottom 2nd 3rd 4th Top All households
One adult with children 5,275 7,816 11,106 15,892 27,471 8,449
Two adults with one child 4,635 8,140 11,416 15,883 30,236 16,117
Two adults with two children 4,875 8,231 11,297 15,837 28,369 13,899
Two adults with three or more children 4,924 8,085 11,190 15,877 27,524 11,052
Other households with children 5,137 8,092 11,377 15,834 24,362 11,578

The quintile groups are based on all households ranked by equivalised disposable income. The difference between the average equivalised disposable income of household types within each quintile group is affected by the composition of the quintile group and the distribution of the incomes of the different household types within the quintile group.

Those figures are not strictly comparable over time because of changes in classification of both income and taxation and because of changes in the family expenditure survey.

The information is taken from an analysis published in "Economic Trends" which examines the differential impact of taxes and benefits on households at different income levels in the given year. It provides five measures of income and appropriate deflators have not been developed across the range of measures. For the particular measure of disposable income, a possible deflator would be the all-items retail prices index, excluding local taxes.