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Sir Brandon Rhys Williams
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table, for the years 1959, 1979 and the latest for which figures are available, showing net income at average male manual earnings for a single-wage married man with wife and two children aged (a) two and six years and (b) 15 and 17 years, as a percentage of the net income of a single person on the same wage; and if he can show a comparable figure for a typical pre-war year.
Mr. Newton
The information requested is as follows:
| Net income* of average male manual earnings for single wage man with wife and two children as a percentage of the net income of a single person on the same wage | ||
| Date | Married couple with 2 children aged (2 & 6) as a percentage of single person | Married couple with 2 children aged (15 & 17) as a percentage of single person |
| October 1938* | 129·3 | 129·3 |
| August 1959* | 117·7 | 119·9 |
| August 1979 | 116·8 | 116·8 |
| August 1985† | 118·2 | 118·2 |
| * Net income derives from estimates of average gross weekly earnings of male manual workers less tax and national insurance contributions at the non-contracted out insurance rates plus child support/child benefit. | ||
| † Provisional. | ||