Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people in Glasgow East constituency who are eligible for but do not claim working tax credit payments.
The information for Glasgow East is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
HMRC published Child Benefit, Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Working Tax Credit (WTC) take up rates 2014 to 2015 on 14th December 2016. This publication is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-benefit-child-tax-credit-ctc-and-working-tax-credit-wtc-take-up-rates-2014-to-2015
Table 9 (page 21) provides information on the CTC take up by region, but not parliamentary constituency. This table includes estimates of the number of entitled non-recipients, and are given as central estimates with upper and lower bounds. There is no equivalent table for WTC.