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ENGLAND
Housing One-parent Benefit Benefit (5)
540,000
589,000
SCOTLAND
80,000
74,000
WALES
30,000
33,000
NORTHERN IRELAND
[2]
21,000
FOOTNOTE
1. Number of lone-parent families; OPCS estimates that in 1986 there were 1,010,000 lone parent families in Great Britain.
2. Information not readily available. Can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
3. Claimants can be entitled to more than one benefit.
4.
Income support. Figure does not include prisoners' partners. 5. One-parent benefit. An estimated figure.
Sources:
Income support
Family credit
Housing benefit
One-parent benefit
HKD
Annual statistical enquiry 1988.
Department statistics
Housing benefit
information systems 1988. Departmental statistics.
HONG KONG SPOUSES: BRITISH CITIZENSHIP
management
Lord Mackintosh of Halifax asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they are considering altering the present requirement that a Hong Kong Chinese spouse of a British citizen can only apply for naturalisation as a British citizen if he or she completed three years of residence in the United Kingdom, so that a Hong Kong resident spouse could satisfy the three-year rule by living with a British citizen spouse either in the United Kingdom or Hong Kong.
Viscount Ullswater: The Government have no present plans for changes in the relevant law and practice other than those necessary to implement the announcement made by the noble Lord, the Lord Brabazon of Tara, on 20th December 1989 (H.L. Deb., col. 279-290),
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TERRORIST SUSPECTS. TAPE-RECORDING OF INTERVIEWS
Lord Lyell asked Her Majesty's Government:
What plans they have for the tape recording of inteviews with suspected terrorists.
Viscount Ullswater: Tape recording of summaries of interviews with suspected terrorists, and of their comments on the summary, is to be introduced on an experimental basis by the Metropolitan and Merseyside Police from Monday 5th March. The experiment will run for two years and will be monitored by the Research and Planning Unit of the Home Office, reporting to a steering committee which includes representatives of the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Criminal Bar Association and the Law Society. A copy of the relevant notes of guidance has been placed in the Library.
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