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1700602

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimates his Department has made of the number of claimants who are receiving tax credits with savings above £16,000 that will no longer be entitled to Universal Credit.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	21487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>No estimate has been made of the number of those receiving tax credits with savings above £16,000 that will no longer be entitled to Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Tax credits recipients are not required to report savings in order to claim tax credits.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 22/04/2024 14:39:38 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1689261

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is taking steps to help identify tax credit claimants (a) with limited capacity, (b) who have been subject to domestic abuse and (c) with other vulnerabilities.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	14184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department has robust processes in place for Tax Credit customers that are regarded and identified as having (a) limited capacity and (b) are subject to domestic abuse.</p><p> </p><p>A person is treated as being at a disadvantage in getting a job if they have a range of disabilities for example when standing, using their hands, lack of dexterity, hearing or mental impairments or have sight impairment.</p><p> </p><p>This list is not exhaustive.</p><p> </p><p>For our customers who are visually impaired we can provide correspondence to be sent to them in one of the following formats</p><ul><li>Braille</li><li>large print</li><li>audiotape</li><li>floppy disk</li><li>CD-ROM.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We have a dedicated team available to deal with customers that are subject to domestic violence. All correspondence is checked prior to issue so that no sensitive information is divulged to an ex-partner (or existing partner).</p><p> </p><p>Customers with limited capacity and that are subject to domestic violence have access to our Extra Support Teams, this service offers them additional bespoke assistance when needed.</p><p> </p><p>More information and help can be found in the links below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/get-help-hmrc-extra-support" target="_blank">Get help from HMRC if you need extra support: Help you can get - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 22/02/2024 16:31:39 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1683498

registered interest
date	18/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2024 to Question 7905 on Welfare Tax Credits, for what reason the awards of tax credit are deemed provisional; and for what reason the information is published annually.
tabling member constituency	Suffolk Coastal
tabling member printed	Dr Thérèse Coffey
uin	10450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The provisional awards statistics for those receiving Child and Working Tax Credits relate to the caseload position at a snapshot point in time, based on the latest family circumstances HMRC have been informed of by each family prior to that point in time.</p><p> </p><p>It is only at finalisation (usually four to nine months after the end of the tax year) that the family’s circumstances for the whole year are known and a finalised award can be calculated.</p><p> </p><p>This means the statistics for provisional awards provide up to date numbers at the reference point in time but are subject to change following finalisation as described above.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC publishes accredited official statistics based on provisional awards data twice a year coinciding with the availability of that data for analytical purposes. The statistics are usually released in February (based on data from December of the previous year) and June (based on April data).</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 23/01/2024 11:53:18 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey

1679422

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit recipients there were in December 2023.
tabling member constituency	Suffolk Coastal
tabling member printed	Dr Thérèse Coffey
uin	7905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>Statistics for families in receipt of tax credits as of April 23 are available at the link below:</p><p> </p><p><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-provisional-awards-april-2023" target="_blank">Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: Provisional Awards April 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></em></p><p> </p><p>Figures for December 2023 are due to be released in February and will form part of the Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: Provisional Awards, December 2023 accredited official statistics publication.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 10/01/2024 13:25:10 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey

1351333

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people who were not receiving tax credits on 2 March 2021 but who have subsequently had their claims backdated to include that date, for what reasons those payments were backdated; and how many of those backdated claimants qualified for the £500 tax credit payments.
tabling member constituency	Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
tabling member printed	Gerald Jones
uin	41055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>While the COVID-19 support scheme for working households receiving tax credits uses tax credits as a proxy for eligibility it is separate and legally distinct from tax credits. Eligibility for the one-off payment is determined solely by a claimant’s tax credits award as it appeared on 2 March 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The specific information requested is not currently available due to the nature of tax credits. Tax credits awards are provisional until the annual finalisation and renewals process takes place. The 2020-21 renewals process needs to be completed and the data from that exercise analysed before an estimate could be made. This is expected some time in the first half of 2022.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/09/2021 15:19:56 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4501 label Biography information for Gerald Jones

1202078

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce a tax credit system after the COVID-19 pandemic similar to the post-war credits that were introduced after the Second World War.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL5465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government keeps all aspects of the tax system under review; as we exit the current crisis, we will take stock of the economy and public finances and make the right decisions at that point.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 23/06/2020 14:04:33 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1196613

registered interest
date	18/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit renewal letters were (a) sent out and (b) responded to in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	48600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2020 answer text <p>For tax credit renewals in 2019, 4,657,760 renewal notices were issued. Of those, 2,675,511 were Auto Renewals and 1,982,249 were Reply Required (RRQ).</p><p> </p><p>By 31 July 2019, 1,575,693 RRQs had been received, indicating that 79.5% of RRQ customers had responded by 31 July.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/05/2020 15:32:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1187057

registered interest
date	23/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will suspend the tax credit income disregard for reductions in earnings for the financial year 2020-21 to ensure that where earnings fall households' tax credit entitlement takes full account of that loss.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	33615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>This Government is doing whatever it can to ensure that individuals, families and businesses are supported during the Covid-19 outbreak.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that Tax Credits were introduced in the early 2000s and no longer fully reflect the world of work for many people. That is one of the reasons why we are introducing Universal Credit. Universal Credit replaces Tax Credits and several other legacy benefits, to provide a single system of means-tested support for working age people. Universal Credit is assessed and paid monthly and is based on claimants’ actual earnings in the month, rather than their annual income. As HMRC and DWP are experiencing significant increased demand, the Government has chosen to prioritise the safety and stability of the benefits system overall. That is why we have introduced measures that can be operationalised as quickly and safely as possible in order to provide support to those who need it most.</p><p> </p><p>Suspending the income disregard in Working Tax Credit (WTC) would not benefit claimants on the lowest incomes who are already in receipt of the maximum support available through WTC.</p><p> </p><p>This Government has taken additional steps to support those affected by Covid-19 and has announced a wide-ranging package of measures to support individuals, families and businesses affected by Covid-19. These measures include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Making Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) available for individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 or those unable to work because they are self-isolating in line with Government guidance. This is in addition to the change announced by the Prime Minister that SSP will be payable from day 1 instead of day 4 for affected individuals.</li><li>Increasing the standard allowance in Universal Credit and the basic element of Working Tax Credit by up to £20 per week</li><li>A further temporary relaxation of earnings rules for self-employed Universal Credit claimants</li><li>Increasing the Local Housing Allowance for Universal Credit and Housing Benefit claimants to the 30<sup>th</sup> percentile of market rents.</li><li>Introducing the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to help firms continue to keep people in employment. Businesses can put workers on temporary leave and the Government will pay them cash grants to cover 80% of their wages up to a cap of £2,500, providing they keep the worker employed.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 21/04/2020 06:54:27 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1010301

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many child tax credit and working tax credit cases are waiting over 30 days for a mandatory reconsideration.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	192741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The total number of tax credits cases that are waiting over 30 days for a mandatory reconsideration is 859. This figure is inclusive of all claims with Child Tax Credit and/or Working Tax Credits.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of tax credits cases that are waiting over 40 days for a mandatory reconsideration is 40. This figure is inclusive of all claims with Child Tax Credit and/or Working Tax Credits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 192742 question first answered 27/11/2018 13:55:21 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1010302

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many child tax credit and working tax credit cases are waiting over 40 days for a mandatory reconsideration.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	192742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The total number of tax credits cases that are waiting over 30 days for a mandatory reconsideration is 859. This figure is inclusive of all claims with Child Tax Credit and/or Working Tax Credits.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of tax credits cases that are waiting over 40 days for a mandatory reconsideration is 40. This figure is inclusive of all claims with Child Tax Credit and/or Working Tax Credits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 192741 question first answered 27/11/2018 13:55:21 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett