NOTIONAL INCOME AND SOCIAL SECURITY

Early day motion 140, tabled 20 December 2000 by Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru). Signed by 33 members.

That this House calls on the Government to reconsider social security regulations which interpret a national income as accruing from capital over the ú3,000 threshold capital rule; believes that the discrepancy between the actual income and the notional income leads to either an income lower than the minimum provided by income support regulations, or to an inevitable diminution of capital to subsidise living costs; and calls for early action to remedy this anomaly.

Signatures by party: Labour 15, Liberal Democrat 11, Plaid Cymru 4, Labour/Co-operative 2, UUP 1.