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429335

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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 tax credit claimants have reported difficulties in renewing their claim online in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	16963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/11/2015 16:30:47 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

429336

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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 tax credit claimants have received help with the digital skills required to renew their tax credit claim in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	16964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/11/2015 16:31:29 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

429337

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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 number of households with dependents under the age of 18 that will be affected by the draft Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2015.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	17025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p><br /><p>This Government is committed to moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society. As the Chancellor has made clear, the Government will set out at Autumn Statement how we plan to achieve the same goal of reforming tax credits, saving the money we need to save to secure our economy, while at the same time helping in the transition.</p><br /> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 24/11/2015 14:15:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

429463

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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, for what reasons expenditure on personal tax credits has increased since 2009.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	17065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>The OBR’s Welfare Trends Report 2014 sets out how historical spending changes have been driven by, for example, changes to caseloads and average awards.</p><br /><p>As it sets out, policy decisions between 2003 and 2009 increased the caseload of tax credit claimants and increased discretionary uprating of the child element, contributing to expenditure as a percentage of GDP increasing from 1.1% in 2003/04 to 1.9% in 2009/10.</p><br /><p>By 2010, 9 out of 10 families with children were eligible for tax credits. Reforms under the Coalition government decreased this to 6 out of 10.</p><br /><p>http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/wordpress/docs/Welfare_trends_report_2014_dn2B.pdf</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 30/11/2015 17:01:26 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

429002

registered interest
date	18/11/2015
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 16 November 2015 to Question 15239, how much of the £3.6 billion of tax credits overpayments his Department has recovered in 2015 to date.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	16924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>The most up to date information requested is available from the HM Revenue and Customs Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15. Available on page 28 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 04/12/2015 13:19:49 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

428046

registered interest
date	13/11/2015
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, whether there are alternative mechanisms for tax credits claimants to inform his Department of changes to their childcare arrangements other than the tax credits helpline.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	16204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>Currently a tax credit customer can inform HMRC of changes to their childcare arrangements via the post as well as contacting the tax credits helpline.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/11/2015 17:52:13 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

427029

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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 and what proportion of tax credit claimants who claim housing benefit are entitled to a higher rate of housing benefit due to the childcare cost disregard.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	15656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society. As the Chancellor made clear, the Government will set out at Autumn Statement how we plan to achieve the same goal of reforming tax credits, saving the money we need to save to secure our economy, while at the same time helping in the transition.</p><br /><p>As announced at Summer Budget, the Chancellor announced that free entitlement childcare would be doubled from 15 hours to 30 for working parents. This will not be rolled out until September 2017, with early implementation in some areas in September 2016.</p><br /><p>Information about the age, gender and number of children in receipt of tax credits can be found in HMRC’s Child and Working Tax Credits Statistics, April 2015. Available here: <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> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 15635 15642 15654 15655 question first answered 16/11/2015 16:10:09 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

427030

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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 tax credit claimants have a child aged (a) one, (b) two, (c) three and (d) four.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	15654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society. As the Chancellor made clear, the Government will set out at Autumn Statement how we plan to achieve the same goal of reforming tax credits, saving the money we need to save to secure our economy, while at the same time helping in the transition.</p><br /><p>As announced at Summer Budget, the Chancellor announced that free entitlement childcare would be doubled from 15 hours to 30 for working parents. This will not be rolled out until September 2017, with early implementation in some areas in September 2016.</p><br /><p>Information about the age, gender and number of children in receipt of tax credits can be found in HMRC’s Child and Working Tax Credits Statistics, April 2015. Available here: <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> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 15635 15642 15655 15656 question first answered 16/11/2015 16:10:08 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

427031

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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 and what proportion of tax credit claimants have a child under the age of five and claim support for childcare costs.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	15655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society. As the Chancellor made clear, the Government will set out at Autumn Statement how we plan to achieve the same goal of reforming tax credits, saving the money we need to save to secure our economy, while at the same time helping in the transition.</p><br /><p>As announced at Summer Budget, the Chancellor announced that free entitlement childcare would be doubled from 15 hours to 30 for working parents. This will not be rolled out until September 2017, with early implementation in some areas in September 2016.</p><br /><p>Information about the age, gender and number of children in receipt of tax credits can be found in HMRC’s Child and Working Tax Credits Statistics, April 2015. Available here: <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> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 15635 15642 15654 15656 question first answered 16/11/2015 16:10:09 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

426727

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
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 much is owed in overpaid tax credits.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	15239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>This information is available at:</p><br /><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449343/HMRC_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2014-15__Web_accessible_version_.pdf</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 16/11/2015 15:40:13 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope