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Dept of Social Security

Answer

Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement on the distribution of Child Benefit expenditure according to (a) the gross income bands, (b) the equivalised gross income bands and (c) the equivalised net income bands of recipient families using (i) each band of £5,000 up to £40,000 and (ii) over £40,000. [121104] Angela Eagle: The information is in the table. Expenditure on Child Benefit by band of income and the number of children in each income band _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Gross income Equivalised gross income Equivalised net income Less than £5,000 £90 million (0.2 million) £200 million (0.4 million) £290 million (0.5 million) £5-£10,000 £970 million (1.6 million) £1,930 million (3.4 million) £2,530 million (4.4 million) £10-£15,000 £1,260 million (2.1 million) £1,550 million (2.7 million) £2,070 million (3.6 million) £15-£20,000 £960 million (1.7 million) £1,230 million (2.2 million) £1,130 million (2.0 million) £20-£25,000 £850 million (1.5 million) £830 million (1.5 million) £570 million (1.0 million) £25-£30,000 £770 million (1.4 million) £520 million (0.9 million) £290 million (0.5 million) £30-£35,000 £590 million (1.0 million) £340 million (0.6 million) £120 million (0.2 million) £35-£40,000 £470 million (0.9 million) £200 million (0.4 million) £70 million (0.1 million) £40,000 and above £1,250 million (2.3 million) £410 million (0.7 million) £140 million (0.3 million) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. Information is taken from Households Below Average income (HBAI) 1997-98 based on the Family Resources Survey 1997-98. 2. All figures are in April 1999 prices. 3. The expenditure of Child Benefit has been estimated using benefit receipt on HBAI. Therefore the expenditure in this table will not exactly match published expenditure figures. 4. The figures in parentheses are the number of children in each band of income. 5. Estimates of expenditure are rounded to the nearest £100 million. Numbers of children are rounded to the nearest 100,000.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

121104; 349 c277-8W

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Child benefit Families Expenditure Income Recipients

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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