Repeat: Although survey methods used to measure family spending have been changed over the past 15 years, the figures indicate that the last time outgoings fell below £490 a week was in the financial year 1996/97, when the economy was still recovering from the recession of the early 1990s.
Although survey methods used to measure family spending have been changed over the past 15 years, the figures indicate that the last time outgoings fell below £490 a week was in the financial year 1996/97, when the economy was still recovering from the recession of the early 1990s.