To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the estimated number of children in Wales whose families (a) receive incomes below supplementary benefit levels, (b) receive supplementary benefit, (c) receive income above supplementary benefit levels but below 110 per cent. of supplementary benefit, (d) income above 110 per cent. of supplementary benefit levels but below 120 per cent. and (e) income above 120 per cent. of supplementary benefit levels but below 140 per cent.; what were the equivalent figures for 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987 and 1989; and what was the percentage change in each category between 1979 and 1989.

The table gives the estimated numbers of children in Wales, aged under 16 years, whose families received supplementary benefit or income support. The other information requested is not available centrally.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the latest figures showing gross weekly household income levels in Wales as per family type and the percentage of households earning (a) less than £60, (b) £60 to £100, (c) £100 to £225, (d) £225 to £325, (e) £325 to £425, and (f) over £425 per week.

Estimates are given in the following tables. The first table provides, for Wales, the average gross weekly household income, by household composition, over the two-year period 1988–89. The second table shows, for the same two-year period, the percentages of all households in Wales in each band of earnings.These estimates, derived from the results of the 1988 and 1989 family expenditure surveys, may be subject to errors due to small sample sizes for some categories.