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Mr. Kirkwood
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will publish a table from the low-income families statistics showing the number of children living in Scotland below, at or up to 40 per cent. above supplementary benefit level in 1979 and 1981, 1983 and 1985; and what proportion of Scottish children they represent in each case;(2) if he will publish a table from the low-income families statistics showing the number of
(a) persons and (b) households in Scotland below, at or up to 40 per cent. above supplementary benefit level in 1979 and 1985; and what proportion of the Scottish population they represent in each case.
Mr. Portillo
I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) on 27 May 1988 at columns 413–14.