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Kate Green Excerpts

Tuesday 21st December 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hoban]

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is working with his international partners to freeze the EU’s budget over the next financial perspective.

[Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston) (Lab)]

22. What his estimate is of the number of single-income families which will be affected by the decision to end child benefit for households with a higher-rate taxpayer.

[The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Mr David Gauke)]

The withdrawal of child benefit from families containing a higher-rate taxpayer in 2013 will affect around 200,000 single-income households.

[Kate Green]

The Minister will be aware that receipt of child benefit by full-time mothers with no other income triggers national insurance caring credits, which count towards those women’s pensions. Will he explain how the full-time mothers who will lose child benefit under the Government’s proposals can retain their link to the national insurance system and their pension contributions?