HC Deb 06 March 2001 vol 364 c168W
Mr. Webb

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the number of families with dependent children who have been in receipt of Income Support for one year or more. [152010]

Mr. Bayley

As at November 2000 there were 896,000 families with dependent children who had been receiving Income Support for one year or more.

Notes:

  1. 1. Dependent children are defined as aged 0–15 years.
  2. 2. Figure is based on a 5 per cent. sample and is therefore subject to a degree of sampling error.
  3. 3. Figure is rounded to the nearest thousand.
  4. 4. Claimants may have more than one dependent child.

Source:

Income Support Quarterly Statistical Enquiry, November 2000