HC Deb 10 May 2000 vol 349 cc424-5W
Mr. Webb

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the average percentage increase in real benefit unit net income between 1997–98 and 2000–01 of the 1.2 million children that his policies have lifted out of poverty. [121287]

Dawn Primarolo

Collating this information requires complex technical modelling. I will write to the hon. Member with the relevant information as soon as possible, placing a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.