§ Mr. Duncan SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the net impact on a two parent single earner family with two children receiving one and half times average household income, taking into account the increase in child benefit, if the married couples allowance was abolished. [74747]
§ Dawn Primarolo[holding answer 4 March 1999]I have been asked to reply.
A two parent single earner family with two children receiving one and a half times median household income will lose £207 from the abolition of married couple's allowance, but will gain £416 from the Children's Tax Credit in 2001–02.
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