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Mr. Austin Mitchell
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for tables 5.14 and 5.15 of the latest issue of "Social Trends" the median figure for gross earnings on the horizontal axis and the actual figures and percentages for each category on the vertical axis at that level of earnings.
Mr. Major
The information is as follows:
| July 1986 | |||
| Median earnings1 £ | Total income support2 £ | Replacement ratio3 percentage | |
| Family type | |||
| Single person (householder) | 187 | 100·06 | 30 |
| Married couple | 187 | 107·42 | 45 |
| Married couple with one child (aged 3) | 187 | 112·17 | 56 |
| Married couple with two children (aged 4 and 6) | 187 | 117·52 | 64 |
| Married couple with three children (aged 3, 8, 11) | 187 | 124·62 | 74 |
| Married couple with four children (aged 3, 8, 11, and 16) | 187 | 131·72 | 86 |
| Single person with one child (aged 3) | 125 | 78·33 | 56 |
| 1 Estimated median earnings at July 1986 for: | |||
| adult male full-time employees for all family types except single person plus child | |||
| adult, female full-time employees for single person plus child. | |||
| 2 Net income (including the value of benefits in kind) less housing costs and travel to work expenses— referred to as "net weekly spending power" in Social Trends. | |||
| 3 Total income support (TIS) out of work and receiving supplementary benefit as a percentage of TIS in work. | |||