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<p><strong>The provisional award Child and Working Tax Credits statistics for December
2013, split by geography, are available at:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/266640/1312_Geog_sent.xls"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/266640/1312_Geog_sent.xls</a></p><p>
</p><p><strong>Table 2 breaks down Tax Credit claimants by Region and Table 4 by constituency.
Those in receipt of WTC are presented within the ‘WTC and CTC' and ‘With no children'
columns.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Figures for the current financial year are
not yet available, but HMRC are due to publish the next provisional tax credits national
statistics for April 2014 on 25 April. </strong></p><p><strong>Forecasts of tax credit
claimant numbers are not available.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Official statistics
on Universal Credit were published on 19 March and can be found at:</strong></p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/293502/universal-credit-first-release-mar14.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/293502/universal-credit-first-release-mar14.pdf</a></p><p>
</p><p><strong>DWP announced plans for the next stage of implementation on 5 December,
and these were set out in a written ministerial statement (WMS). The WMS can be found
here:</strong></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-credit-progress"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-credit-progress</a></p><p>
</p><p><strong>Statistics on numbers in receipt of other benefits are available here:
</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2014"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2014</a></p><p>
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