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420598

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 September 2015, when he expects to publish 2014-15 data on families' tax credit awards within local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	11419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2015 answer text <p>HMRC will be publishing the 2014-15 Tax Credits Finalised Awards National Statistics on 27th May 2016. The geographical version will include a breakdown of Tax Credits recipients by local authority, as well as Government Office Region and Parliamentary Constituency.</p><p>Information for 2013-14, the most recently published annual figures on Tax Credits, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2013-to-2014" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2013-to-2014</strong></a></p><p>Information on the average number of families receiving Tax Credits and the value of their finalised entitlement, broken down by Local Authority, can be found in table 2.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 16/10/2015 13:25:05 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

419861

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many reports he has received in each of the last two financial years of HM Revenue and Customs' electronic application portal failing to record and register data and supporting documentation submitted by applicants for child and working tax credits.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	11016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs do not have an electronic application portal for applicants for child and working tax credits. New claims for tax credits can be submitted by post or over the telephone.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/10/2015 15:27:12 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

419175

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what impact assessment his Department has made of the effect on working families of (a) reduction in income thresholds and (b) increases in the tax credits taper rate.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	10520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The effect on working families of the reduction in income thresholds and increased in the tax credit taper rate should not be considered separately from wider policies in the Budget, such as our commitment to introducing the National Living Wage and increases to the personal tax allowance.</p><p>Taking the welfare changes in the Budget together with the record increases in the income tax personal allowance and the introduction of the new National Living Wage, 8 out of 10 working households will be better off in 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/10/2015 13:50:55 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

418860

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Government employees are in receipt of tax credits.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Callum McCaig
uin	10319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/09/2015 08:53:41 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4364 label Biography information for Callum McCaig

418985

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in each constituency will be affected by the Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	10377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2015 answer text <p>This information is unavailable.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is making changes to Tax Credits and Universal Credit which will help put welfare spending on a more sustainable path. The emphasis is on supporting hardworking families on low incomes by reducing income tax through increases in the personal allowance and increasing wages, rather than on topping up low wages through tax credits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMT has published a distributional analysis of the impact of the Summer Budget 2015 which includes the effect of tax credit and other welfare measures on households. This information can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443229/PU1822_Distributional_Analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443229/PU1822_Distributional_Analysis.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC publishes information on families’ tax credit awards within local authorities. The most recent available data is for 2013-14 and can be found here:</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>Information on the number of families in individual constituencies receiving tax credits and the average value of these payments can be found in table 2.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/09/2015 12:57:20 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

417546

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on (a) relative and (b) absolute child poverty of the four year freeze announced in the Summer Budget 2015 on the uprating of (i) tax credits and (ii) child benefit.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	9470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to working to eliminate child poverty and improving life chances for children.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has carefully considered the impact of the tax and benefit reforms introduced in the Summer Budget. The intended impact of these reforms is to incentivise work, ensure work always pays, and then allow people to keep more of what they earn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 16/09/2015 16:32:59 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

416284

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July to Question 7590, what his timetable is for publishing updated guidance and advice on the implementation of changes to tax credit entitlement arising from the Summer Budget 2015; and if he will publish an online calculator incorporating those changes to tax credits.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	8743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs will be in contact with those individuals affected by any changes to their tax credit entitlements in due course.</p><p> </p><p>I refer the hon member to the answer given by the Financial Secretary on 15 July to question 6497.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 09/09/2015 16:55:36 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

416551

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how his Department will monitor the effect of changes to tax credits on the income of the poorest families.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	8580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions publishes a series of statistics on the number and percentage of people living in low-income households in the UK. These publications are located here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/households-below-average-income-hbai--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/households-below-average-income-hbai--2</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Another publication series which monitors low-income households is The Effects of Taxes and Benefits on Household Income. These are produced by the Office for National Statistics and are located here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/household-income/the-effects-of-taxes-and-benefits-on-household-income/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/household-income/the-effects-of-taxes-and-benefits-on-household-income/index.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An update of these publications are provided at the end of each financial year. They examine how taxes and benefits redistribute income between various groups of households in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/09/2015 13:23:07 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

391907

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of recent changes to tax and tax credits on the income of women who choose to stay at home to care for children.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	8240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government recognises the commitment and value of parents who choose to stay at home to look after their children, and the difficulties they might face. The Government has introduced the Marriage Allowance which will benefit married parents who do not use their full personal allowance; it has made reforms to the state pension which will improve pension provision for those who choose not to work due to caring responsibilities; and introduced a new package of childcare support to help parents balance work and family life.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/09/2015 14:53:57 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

390689

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance his Department has issued on how tax credit claimants can calculate how much their tax credit entitlement will change as a result of changes to tax credit entitlement announced in the Summer Budget 2015.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	7590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>Updated guidance and advice will be available on tax credits entitlement in advance of the implementation of the new measures, announced in the Summer Budget 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/07/2015 16:01:51 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff