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Mr. Steinberg
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what percentage of children aged (a) under five years and (b) five to 15 years from two-parent families in the United Kingdom were in families in receipt of Family Credit in each of the last five years. [78279]
Mr. Timms
The information is in the table.
| Children in two parent families receiving Family Credit: Great Britain | ||||
| Under 5 | 5 to 15 | |||
| Thousand | Percentage | Thousand | Percentage | |
| May 1994 | 238 | 7.6 | 451 | 7.1 |
| May 1995 | 258 | 8.6 | 486 | 7.7 |
| May 1996 | 286 | 9.6 | 555 | 8.8 |
| May 1997 | 307 | 10.0 | 579 | 9.1 |
| May 1998 | 293 | 9.6 | 566 | 9.0 |
Notes:
1. Numbers are based on a 5 per cent. sample of Family Credit awards and as such are subject to a degree of sampling error.
2. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest thousand.
3. Children are defined as aged under 16.
Sources:
1. Family Credit 5 per cent. sample.
2. Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey Household Datasets.