Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 June 1985.
I fully accept the point about the low take-up of family income supplement, but does the Minister agree that paying family credit through the wage packet may not overcome that problem, because a great deal will depend on the co-operation of employers? Does he also agree that in nine cases out of 10 it makes eminent sense for the mother, as the caring parent, to have direct access to funding for her children?