HL Deb 08 June 1999 vol 601 cc154-5WA
Lord Dormand of Easington

asked the Chairman of Committees:

Whether he will make arrangements for copies of the Official Report of the devolved Parliament and Assemblies to be made available to Peers in the Printed Paper Office; and, if not, why not. [HL2619]

The Chairman of Committees (Lord Boston of Faversham)

Papers of the Scottish Parliament and of the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies are not, at present, made available in the Printed Paper Office.

Money values for decile medians of the equivalised income distribution in April 1998 prices, including self-employed
Bottom decile Second decile Third decile Fourth decile Fifth decile Sixth decile Seventh decile Eighth decile Ninth decile Top decile
Before Housing Costs 108 144 172 202 236 274 316 370 453 649
After Housing Costs 71 106 132 164 200 236 277 327 402 582

Source:

FRS 1996–97.

Notes:

  1. 1. All figures are estimates and are taken from the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data set which is based on the Family Resources Survey (FRS). The FRS does not include Northern Ireland. 1996–97 is the latest year for which information is available.
  2. 2. The income measure used is weekly net (disposable) equivalised household income (that is to say "actual" income that is adjusted to reflect the composition of the household). The figures given are equivalent to the "actual" household income of a couple with no children.
  3. 3. Median incomes are given to avoid any potential bias affecting the mean, as a result of the large numbers of outlying observations present in both the first and tenth deciles of the income distribution, both of which are skewed downwards. These outliers result from problems with both under-recording of household income and high sampling variability at the top and bottom of the income distribution.
  4. 4. It is standard HBAI practice to give results for income both before and after housing costs, in order to allow for the effect of variations in housing costs between households.