Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in receipt of housing benefit who were also in receipt of childcare tax credits in each of the last three years.
The requested information is shown in the table below:
Claimants receiving both Housing Benefit and the Childcare Element of Tax Credits - 31st August 2015, 2016 and 2017
| Thousands |
August 2015 | 90 |
August 2016 | 90 |
August 2017 | 100 |