Family Statistics

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To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish figures showing the number of (a) dependent children, (b) children under age five years, (c) working mothers, (d) two-earner couples, (e) working mothers with at least one child under age five years and, (f) two-earner couples with at least one child under age five years.

Estimates from the labour force survey carried out in the spring of 1990 indicate that in Great Britain there were;

(a) 11,148,000 dependent children (under age 16 years),

(b) 3,698,000 children under age five years,

(c) 3,685.000 working mothers (aged 16–59),

(d) 6,957000 two-earner couples (women in employment aged 16–59 with a husband or cohabiting partner in employment),

(e) 1,250,000 working mothers (aged 16–59) with at least one child under age five years.

Volume 204: debated on Wednesday 26 February 1992