Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on changing the income threshold for child tax credit (a) in 2016-17 and (b) by 2020.

The income threshold after which payments of Child Tax Credit begin to be reduced will continue to depend on a number of factors: the first income threshold (the Working Tax Credit threshold), the taper rate (the rate at which tax credits are reduced once the first income threshold has been exceeded), and the level of uprating of the individual elements of tax credits.