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.
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:
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.