HC Deb 02 November 1999 vol 337 c156W
Mr. Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his oral answer of 25 October 1999,Official Report, column 693, if he will give the sources underlying his statement regarding the proportion of incapacity benefit recipients with occupational pensions who are in the top income brackets; and if he is referring to individual or household income. [96841]

Mr. Bayley

[holding answer 1 November 1999]: The information referred to was based on equivalised household income data from the Department's Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series, the source for which was the Family Resources Survey 1996–97.