Income Support

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To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the (a) numbers and (b) percentages of single parents on income support, who have mortgages, for each of the past 10 years. [82164]

The information is not available in the form requested. Such information as is available is in the table.

Single parents in receipt of income support who have a mortgage or loan for the accommodation they are living in since 1994
Year	Number of claimants	Percentage of all Single parents on Income Support
1994–95	130,000	14
1995–96	130,000	13
1996–97	150,000	14
1997–98	110,000	11

Notes:

1. Figures are subject to a degree of sampling error.

2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand, percentages to the nearest integer.

3. The estimates are based on sample counts that have been adjusted for non-response using multi-purpose grossing factors that control for region, Council Tax Band and a number of demographic variables. Estimates are subject to sampling error and to variability in non-response.

4. Benefit receipt is based on self-assessment and therefore may be subject to mis-reporting.

5. Income-based Jobseekers' Allowance (introduced in October 1996) has been included in the analysis for the 1997–98 financial year, but not for the 1996–97 year, since it could not be separately identified from Unemployment Benefit.

Source:

Family Resources Survey (Great Britain).

Volume 330: debated on Wednesday 28 April 1999