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1546837

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the total (a) expenditure on and (b) number of benefit claimants receiving Child Tax Credit in each of the last five years, in (i) England, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales, (iv) Northern Ireland, (v) each local authority and (vi) each constituency.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Neale Hanvey
uin	100007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>Information on the total expenditure on benefit claimants receiving Child Tax Credit or Working Tax Credit by Local Authority and Westminster Parliamentary Constituency would only be available at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The table below summarises the total expenditure on benefit claimants receiving any Personal Tax Credits for each year from 2017-2018 to 2021-2022.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total expenditure on benefit claimants receiving Personal Tax Credits, 2017-18 to 2021-22</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England <sup>(1)</sup></p></td><td><p>22,101</p></td><td><p>18,751</p></td><td><p>15,432</p></td><td><p>12,676</p></td><td><p>9,174</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>1,821</p></td><td><p>1,540</p></td><td><p>1,240</p></td><td><p>999</p></td><td><p>715</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>1,320</p></td><td><p>1,132</p></td><td><p>922</p></td><td><p>746</p></td><td><p>533</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>973</p></td><td><p>849</p></td><td><p>726</p></td><td><p>637</p></td><td><p>490</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Source: Country and </strong><strong>regional analysis: 2022</strong></p><p>(1) England is calculated as the sum of its 9 Government Office Regions</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of benefit claimants receiving Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit in each of the last 5 years in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, each Westminster Parliamentary Constituency and each Local Authority can be collated from published official statistics on Child and Working Tax Credit Awards between 2016-2017 and 2020-2021. Statistics for 2021-2022 will be published in Summer 2023.</p><p> </p><p>Links to published statistics for 2016-2017 to 2020-2021 can be found below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">Personal tax credits: finalised award statistics - geographical statistics 2016 to 2017 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">Personal tax credits: finalised award statistics - geographical statistics 2017 to 2018 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">Personal tax credits: finalised award statistics - geographical statistics 2018 to 2019 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: finalised annual awards - 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: Finalised Annual Awards – 2020 to 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 100008 question first answered 08/12/2022 14:36:38 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4782 label Biography information for Neale Hanvey

1423005

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has any plans to change the rules on child tax credit to allow it to be split across couples who share custody jointly.
tabling member constituency	Tynemouth
tabling member printed	Sir Alan Campbell
uin	124991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>Child Tax Credit (CTC) supports families with the extra costs of raising a child. The Government currently has no plans for splitting CTC in cases where parents have joint care, because there are provisions in place allowing parents to make a joint election as to who should receive the payments. Where parents cannot agree, HM Revenue &amp; Customs can decide who shall be entitled based on the information provided by both parents and the facts in relation to each’s circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>CTC is typically paid to the main carer because they bear more of the expenditure for the child and splitting payments would reduce the amount available to them, when they are often the parent less well placed to earn additional income, and might result in neither household being able to afford extra costs. Unfortunately, there can be no guarantee that both parties will be satisfied with the outcome, although this would equally be the case should parents have to agree how payments were split if formal arrangements for this were put in place. Therefore, ideally, parents should reach agreement between themselves.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 23/02/2022 16:24:40 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	529 label Biography information for Sir Alan Campbell

1276213

registered interest
date	13/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing child tax credit.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
uin	137313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2021 answer text <p>Child Tax Credit was increased in line with CPI in April 2020, and will be further increased as part of the annual uprating exercise in April 2021 to ensure it keeps its value relative to the cost of living.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside these increases, the Government has put in place a comprehensive package of measures to support families on low incomes through the current crisis. This includes income support schemes, support for renters, help with utilities, a £500 million local authority hardship fund, a £7.4 billion package of additional welfare measures, the £170 million Covid Winter Grant Scheme to ensure families get extra support this winter, and the £220 million Holiday Activities and Food programme to give children access to nutritious meals and engaging activities.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 18/01/2021 12:09:18 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

1182802

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when information on the two child limit policy was most recently included in leaflets sent to claimants renewing their child tax credit claim.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	25028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>HMRC provide information about this policy in leaflets which are sent to all claimants in their renewal packs and to those customers finalising their claim in year. Leaflets were last issued in the 2018/19 Tax Credit renewals packs and will again be included in 2019/20 renewal packs from April 2020 onwards.</p><p> </p><p>Information is also available on GOV.UK, while Jobcentre Plus staff can advise on how the policy operates. Claimants were alerted to this policy when it was announced by the Government as part of Summer Budget 2015.</p><p> </p><p>DWP and HMRC also produce annual joint reports with statistics relating to the implementation of the policy. The most recent of these was published on 31 July 2019 and can be found online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-tax-credit-and-universal-credit-claimants-statistics-related-to-the-policy-to-provide-support-for-a-maximum-of-2-children-april-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-tax-credit-and-universal-credit-claimants-statistics-related-to-the-policy-to-provide-support-for-a-maximum-of-2-children-april-2019</a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/03/2020 12:17:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1140358

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households with no one in work receive the (a) disabled child element and (b) the disabled child element but not the severely disabled child element in their child tax credit.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	279149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>As at December 2018 there were 176,000 out-of-work families receiving the disabled child element, of which 101,000 were not also receiving the severely disabled child element.</p><p> </p><p>There were 121,000 out-of-work single adult families receiving the disabled child element, of which 71,000 were not also receiving the severely disabled child element.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 279150 question first answered 23/07/2019 10:15:17 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1087127

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's policy is on entitlement to child tax credits once a dependent in full-time education turns 19 years old.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	231457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>Entitlement to Child Tax Credit can be paid for a qualifying young person up until the age of 20. This is provided the qualifying young person is in full-time non-advanced education, and they enrolled on their course before they turned 19.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 19/03/2019 14:18:30 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

947558

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the report by HMRC, Child and Working Tax Credits Statistics: Provisional Awards Geographical Analysis April 2018, published on 28 June, in relation to the policy to provide support via Child Tax Credit for a maximum of two children, whether they have undertaken an analysis to determine why the total number of affected household in the first year of the policy is substantially lower than the estimate published in their impact assessment of July 2015; and if so, what are the reasons for the difference between the projected and actual outcomes.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Durham
uin	HL9843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2018 answer text <p>The difference between the estimate in the Impact Assessment and the statistic published in “Child Tax Credit and Universal Credit claimants: statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of 2 children, April 2018” is due to a combination factors, including improvements to the methodology used to identify the affected population, divergences between the economic determinants used to model the policy and actual outturn, and changes in the underlying claimant population. No formal analysis of the separate impact of these factors has been made.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 02/08/2018 12:07:13 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4312 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Durham

934122

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households in each English region were eligible for child tax credit for childcare as of 5 April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
tabling member printed	Tom Tugendhat
uin	160299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>Estimates of the number of households in each English region were eligible for the childcare element of working tax credit as of 5 April 2017 can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Our Child and Working Tax Credit Statistics: finalised awards, geographical analysis, 2016-17, provide a regional breakdown of the average number of households in receipt of the childcare element of working tax credit. This has been attached for reference.</p><p> </p><p>Further information regarding Tax Credit take-up statistics for 2016-17 are yet to be published. The latest statistics for 2015-16, with a regional breakdown for all tax credits can be found by following the URL below on Table 9:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/666846/Child_Benefit__Child_Tax_Credit_and_Working_Tax_Credit_Take-up_rates_201....pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/666846/Child_Benefit__Child_Tax_Credit_and_Working_Tax_Credit_Take-up_rates_201....pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>A subset of these statistics for households benefitting from the childcare element could only be produced at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Information regarding the take-up of the childcare element of working tax credit since inception can only be made available at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 160300 question first answered 11/07/2018 11:29:02 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss attachment 1 file name pqtable160299, 160300.docx title Table for PQs 160299 & 160300
tabling member	4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat

934123

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households in each English region have taken up child tax credit for childcare since that policy's inception.
tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
tabling member printed	Tom Tugendhat
uin	160300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>Estimates of the number of households in each English region were eligible for the childcare element of working tax credit as of 5 April 2017 can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Our Child and Working Tax Credit Statistics: finalised awards, geographical analysis, 2016-17, provide a regional breakdown of the average number of households in receipt of the childcare element of working tax credit. This has been attached for reference.</p><p> </p><p>Further information regarding Tax Credit take-up statistics for 2016-17 are yet to be published. The latest statistics for 2015-16, with a regional breakdown for all tax credits can be found by following the URL below on Table 9:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/666846/Child_Benefit__Child_Tax_Credit_and_Working_Tax_Credit_Take-up_rates_201....pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/666846/Child_Benefit__Child_Tax_Credit_and_Working_Tax_Credit_Take-up_rates_201....pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>A subset of these statistics for households benefitting from the childcare element could only be produced at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Information regarding the take-up of the childcare element of working tax credit since inception can only be made available at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 160299 question first answered 11/07/2018 11:29:02 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss attachment 1 file name pqtable160299, 160300.docx title Table for PQs 160299 & 160300
tabling member	4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat

934124

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the income profile of recipients of child tax credit for childcare.
tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
tabling member printed	Tom Tugendhat
uin	160301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>The income profile of in-work recipients of Child Tax Credits is published in our Child and Working Tax statistics: finalised awards, 2016/17, released on 28<sup>th</sup> June 2018. The publication can be found by following URL: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2016-to-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>The relevant information from the published statistics has been derived from Table 1.1 and Table 3.7 and is attached for your reference. The “Total with children” row is the row which provides the income breakdown for all those families receiving the Child Tax Credit.</p><p>The childcare element is a component of Working Tax Credit.</p><p>For PQ 160301, I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given on 6 July to PQ’s 158289 &amp; 158290.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 160304 question first answered 11/07/2018 10:35:51 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss attachment 1 file name tableforpq160304.docx title table for PQs 160304 and 160301
tabling member	4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat