Child Tax Credit

(asked on 3rd July 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households in each English region were eligible for child tax credit for childcare as of 5 April 2017.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 11th July 2018

Estimates of the number of households in each English region were eligible for the childcare element of working tax credit as of 5 April 2017 can only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Our Child and Working Tax Credit Statistics: finalised awards, geographical analysis, 2016-17, provide a regional breakdown of the average number of households in receipt of the childcare element of working tax credit. This has been attached for reference.

Further information regarding Tax Credit take-up statistics for 2016-17 are yet to be published. The latest statistics for 2015-16, with a regional breakdown for all tax credits can be found by following the URL below on Table 9:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/666846/Child_Benefit__Child_Tax_Credit_and_Working_Tax_Credit_Take-up_rates_201....pdf

A subset of these statistics for households benefitting from the childcare element could only be produced at disproportionate cost.

Information regarding the take-up of the childcare element of working tax credit since inception can only be made available at disproportionate cost.

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