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date	13/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people under 25 years old in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK receive tax credits.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	11553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>The latest information on the number of tax credit recipients under 25 in the UK can be found in table 3.1 of the April 2015 Personal Tax Credits published statistics, found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-provisional-statistics-2013-to-2009" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-provisional-statistics-2013-to-2009</a></p><p>These statistics are published in April and December each year.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 16/10/2015 13:38:48 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

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registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: St Helens North
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate is of the number of households in St Helens North constituency affected by the changes to tax credits proposed in the Summer Budget 2015; and what his estimate is of the effect on each such household of those changes.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	6403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information about the number of benefitting families and average entitlement in the St Helens North constituency in the tax year 2013-14 can be found in the publication ‘Personal tax credits: Finalised award statistics – geographical statistics 2013-2014’ here:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2013-to-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is making changes to Child Tax Credit and Universal Credit which will help put welfare spending on a more sustainable path. The Government wants to move from a low wage, high tax, high welfare society to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society. That means more emphasis on support to hardworking families on low incomes by reducing income tax through increases in the personal allowance and increasing wages, than on topping up low wages through tax credits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/07/2015 13:38:47 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn