Working Age Benefits: Wolverhampton
(asked on 4th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Wolverhampton and (b) Wolverhampton North East constituency qualified for (i) working tax credits and (ii) child tax credits in each financial year from 2009-10.
The number of families in receipt of child and working tax credit in (a) Wolverhampton and (b) Wolverhampton North East constituency is published by HMRC and is available on the GOV website
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-tax-credits-statistics. The results have been reproduced in the table below.
| Families in receipt of tax credits from 2009-10 to 2015-16 (in 000’s) | ||||||
| 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
Working tax credit |
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Wolverhampton | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
Wolverhampton North East constituency | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
Child tax credit |
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Wolverhampton | 18.5 | 18.6 | 17.0 | 12.7 | 12.7 | 12.9 | 13.2 |
Wolverhampton North East constituency | 6.8 | 7.2 | 6.5 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.9 |