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The following table is based on finalised tax credits administrative data for each financial year. The latest data available are 2012-13.<\/p>

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Thousands<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Tax Year<\/p><\/td>

Number of families in receipt of tax credits containing at least one member identified as self-employed<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

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Families benefitting from both WTC and CTC<\/p><\/td>

Families benefitting from WTC Only<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

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740<\/p><\/td>

80<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

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100<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

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780<\/p><\/td>

130<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

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800<\/p><\/td>

150<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2011-12<\/p><\/td>

750<\/p><\/td>

160<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2012-13<\/p><\/td>

600<\/p><\/td>

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Data from earlier years is only available at disproportionate cost.<\/p>

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The decrease in the number of self employed households in 2012-13 can largely be explained by the removal of the \u2018Second Income Threshold\u2019 of tax credits in April 2012. This policy change removed a large number of higher income households from the whole tax credits population.<\/p>

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In general, there is and has been a long term trend of growth in the number of self employed people.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1529", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr David Gauke"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South West Hertfordshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr David Gauke"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-07-03", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "true", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/64002/answer/previousversion/7782", "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1529", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr David Gauke"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South West Hertfordshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr David Gauke"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-07-03T15:57:45.697Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ], "questionFirstMinisteriallyCorrected" : [{"_value" : "2015-03-24T11:57:50.163Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "14"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Treasury"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "CaTreasury"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-25", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Welfare Tax Credits: Self-employed"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many self-employed people claimed (a) child tax credits and (b) working tax credits in each of the last 10 years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/163", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "East Ham"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Stephen Timms"} ], "uin" : "202509"} ], "itemsPerPage" : 10, "page" : 0, "startIndex" : 1, "totalResults" : 1, "type" : ["http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#ListEndpoint", "http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#Page"]} }