Family Credit (Hansard, 3 February 1999)

§ Mr. Kirkwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the number of families with children in receipt of family credit distinguishing between one-parent and two-parent

Number of families with children in receipt of family credit
Thousand
	Number of:	Number of children aged
	Families	Children	Under 12 months	1–2 years	3–4 years	5–10 years	11–15 years	16–18 years
All families
All children	782.5	1,576.9	74.3	169.4	178.1	587.6	450.8	116.7
With 1 child	296.7	296.7	23.4	48.8	33.9	81.9	78.2	30.5
With 2 children	278.2	556.3	24.9	57.9	66.8	207.2	158.5	41.0
With 3 children	136.0	408.1	15.2	36.8	45.2	169.2	117.2	24.6
With 4 or more	71.6	315.8	10.9	25.9	32.1	129.3	96.9	20.7
Couples
All children	393.1	926.5	59.2	119.4	116.6	337.5	236.2	57.6
With 1 child	97.2	97.2	15.8	24.2	10.1	16.4	22.3	8.4
With 2 children	144.7	289.4	20.1	42.1	43.8	99.5	66.0	17.9
With 3 children	92.4	277.3	13.3	29.9	34.9	114.1	70.3	14.7
With 4 or more	58.7	262.6	10.0	23.2	27.7	107.5	77.5	16.6
Lone Parents
All children	389.4	650.3	15.1	50.0	61.5	250.1	214.7	59.1
With 1 child	199.4	199.4	7.6	24.6	23.8	65.5	55.8	22.1
With 2 children	133.4	266.9	4.8	15.8	23.0	107.8	92.5	23.0
With 3 children	43.6	130.9	1.8	6.9	10.3	55.0	47.0	9.8
With 4 or more	12.9	53.2	9.0	2.7	4.3	21.8	19.4	4.1

Notes:

1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred

2. Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample and as such are subject to a degree of sampling error

Source:

Family Credit Statistics Quarterly Enquiry August 1998