To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish a table showing the income distribution of the recipients of (a) contributory benefits, (b) non-contributory benefits, (c) means-tested benefits, (d) child benefit and (e) retirement pension broken down into (i) equivalised income bands before and after housing costs and (ii) quintiles on an equivalised basis.

[holding answer 15 July 1993]: The information has been placed in the Library.