Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 April 1996.
Mr Simon Coombs
, Swindon
12:00,
23 April 1996
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what proportion of pensioners had incomes in the top half of the national income distribution in (a) 1979 and (b) the last year for which figures are available. [24675]
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
