asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish in the Official Report the occupational breakdown of family income supplement recipients in Scotland.
I regret that the information is not available.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will print in the Official Report a detailed breakdown of the size of family income supplement benefits paid to claimants in Scotland; and if this information could be classified(i) up to 99p, (ii) £1 to £1·99, (iii) £2 to £2 ·99, (iv) £3 to £3·99, (v) £4 to £4·99 (vi) £5 to £5·99, and (vii) £6 to £7.
The following is based on provisional figures for December 1974, the latest date for which information is available:
| Number receiving | |
| Rate of benefit | FIS |
| Less than £ | 1,000 |
| £1–£1·99 | 1,400 |
| £2–£2·99 | 2,000 |
| £3–£3·99 | 2,000 |
| £4–£4·99 | 1,500 |
| £5–£5·99 | 1,700 |
| £6–£7 | 400 |
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will print in the Official Report the number of claimants drawing family income supplement in Scotland for each year since the inception of the scheme ; and if this information could be broken down between (1) two-parent families, (2) motherless families and (3) fatherless families.
Following is the information:
| Two-parent | One-parent families | ||
| families | (female) | (male) | |
| End of 1971 | 7,000 | 2,700 | 100 |
| End of 1972 | 7,200 | 4,300 | 100 |
| End of 1973 | 7,500 | 5,700 | 100 |
| End of 1974* | 4,600 | 5,200 | 100 |
| * Provisional figures. | |||