To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will revise the data given in his answer to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Mr. Griffiths) Official Report, 17 March 1989, column 390, on household incomes, to take into account the errors in the originally published data.
The figures quoted in the answer to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Mr. Griffiths) on 17 March 1989 were only marginally affected by the recalculated data.The main figures are as follows:
| Real growth in mean net income before housing costs: 1979 to 1985 | |||
| by decile group | by family type | ||
| Lowest | 6 | Married pensioners | 15 |
| 2nd | 5 | Single pensioners | 15 |
| 3rd | 4 | Married with children | 9 |
| 4th | 4 | Married without children | 6 |
| 5th | 4 | Single with children | 10 |
| 6th | 6 | Single with children | 6 |
| 7th | 7* | ||
| 8th | 9 | ||
| 9th | 11* | Total population | 9 |
| Highest | 18 | ||
Notes:
All these figures are as previously published, except the two marked *, which were previously shown as 6 per cent. and 10 per cent. respectively.
Any changes in the detailed figures contained in the original table are likely to be equally trivial. Moreover, as explained in the original answer, those figures are of limited significance, because the deciles used were for the whole population rather than specific to each family type.