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Mr. Nicholas Brown
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the latest estimates of (a) original, (b) gross, (c) disposable and (d) post-tax income, by decile, in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Maude
The information, derived from the 1989 family expenditure survey, is given in the table:
| Average annual household income1 | ||||
| Decile group2 | Original income | Gross income | Disposable income | Post-tax Income |
| Bottom | 1,000 | 4,100 | 3,400 | 2,200 |
| 2nd | 1,600 | 5,200 | 4,500 | 3,400 |
| 3rd | 2,800 | 6,200 | 5,300 | 4,100 |
| 4th | 6,700 | 9,400 | 7,800 | 5,900 |
| 5th | 10,100 | 12,100 | 9,800 | 7,500 |
| 6th | 13,000 | 14,600 | 11,700 | 9,100 |
| 7th | 16,200 | 17,500 | 13,800 | 11,000 |
| 8th | 19,600 | 20,500 | 16,100 | 12,900 |
| 9th | 23,700 | 24,400 | 19,100 | 15,400 |
| Top | 36,400 | 37,000 | 28,900 | 24,800 |
| All households | 13,100 | 15,100 | 12,000 | 9,600 |
| 1 Rounded to the nearest £100. | ||||
| 2 The 7,410 households were ranked by equivalised disposable income. | ||||
| Source: Economic Trends January 1992. | ||||