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<ol><li>Child Benefit</li></ol><p> </p><p>Total Child Benefit payments, in real terms
at 2019/20 prices, since 2000 can be found in the <em>Benefit expenditure and caseload
tables 2019</em> published by the Department for Work and Pensions. This information
has been presented below (Table 1) for the years for which outturn data is available.</p><p>
</p><p>Table 1 - Child Benefit expenditure, real terms (2019/20 prices),</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>£billions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>12.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>12.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>12.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>12.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>13.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>13.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>14.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>13.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>12.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>12.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>12.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>12.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><em>-
Real terms, 2019/20 prices</em></p><p><em>- Figures presented are based on outturn
data</em></p><p><em>Source:</em></p><p><em>- Benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2019</em></p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>2. Income-related benefits</p><p> </p><p>The information requested
relating to Universal Credit is not held and can only be made available at a disproportionate
cost.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure in real terms is available in respect of Income Support
and income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance on child elements in DWP Benefit expenditure
and caseload tables. Again, to be helpful, this information has been presented below
(Table 2) for the years for which outturn data is available.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2
- Income Support and income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance on child elements, real terms
(2019-20 prices),</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Income Support (£millions)</p></td><td><p>Jobseeker's
Allowance (£millions)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>4,270</p></td><td><p>442</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>4,774</p></td><td><p>408</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>5,121</p></td><td><p>406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04*</p></td><td><p>5,151</p></td><td><p>351</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>4,381</p></td><td><p>191</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>3,290</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>2,593</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>2,144</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>1,749</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>1,039</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>737</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>518</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>329</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><em>-
Real terms, 2019/20 prices</em></p><p><em>- Figures presented are based on outturn
data</em></p><p><em>- *since Apr 2004, financial support for children is normally
provided through Child Tax Credit</em></p><p><em>Source:</em></p><p><em>- Benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2019</em></p><p>
</p><p>Annual expenditure on tax credits cannot be broken down between Child Tax Credits
and Working Tax Credits. However, this breakdown is available for the closely related
measure of annual tax credits entitlement, and provided in Table 3 below. The main
difference between tax credits entitlement and tax credits payments is that entitlement
figures are based on the amounts households are entitled to once awards have been
finalised, whereas payments are based on provisional awards which may differ from
final awards, and can include payments and repayments in respect of earlier years.</p><p>Table
3 - Annual entitlement to Child Tax Credit (introduced 2003-04), real terms (2019-20
prices),</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£millions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>18,128</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>18,255</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>18,874</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>19,351</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>21,653</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>23,336</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>23,815</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>24,648</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>24,405</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>23,902</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>23,519</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>23,112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>21,935</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>20,494</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><em>- Figures for 2003-04 are not readily available and
can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</em></p><p><em> Source:</em></p><p><em>-
Nominal figures taken from Table 1.1 of HMRC’s Child and Working Tax Credits Statistics</em></p><p><em>-
Real terms 2019-20 prices. To convert the nominal figures into real terms, the GDP
deflators published in March 2019 were used.</em></p><p><em>- The estimates for 2016-17
and 2017-18 are affected by the introduction of Universal Credit.</em></p><p><em>-
This table does not include entitlement to Working Tax Credit or Working Families
Tax Credit as they are not considered income related benefits for children, although
they do contain some child related elements.</em></p>
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