Child Tax Credit: Liverpool City Region

(asked on 29th March 2017) - View Source
Questioner
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Maria Eagle
(Labour - Garston and Halewood)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of families in (a) Garston and Halewood constituency and (b) Liverpool City Region in receipt of child tax credits were lone parent households in each year since April 2010.

Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 24th April 2017

The number and proportion of families in (a) Garston and Halewood constituency and (b) Liverpool City Region in receipt of child tax credits that were lone parent households in each year since April 2010 is shown in the table below.

Estimates for Liverpool City Region are obtained by aggregating the figures for the following local authorities: Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, St Helen, Sefton, Wirral.

Families in receipt of child tax credits that are lone parent families

Year

Garston and Halewood constituency

Liverpool City Region

Number

As a proportion of total families in area in receipt of child tax credits

Number

As a proportion of total families in area in receipt of child tax credits

2010-11

5,000

51.6%

71,400

48.1%

2011-12

5,100

57.4%

72,100

53.4%

2012-13

4,900

66.2%

70,000

62.7%

2013-14

4,800

67.1%

69,300

63.2%

2014-15

4,700

66.9%

67,900

63.4%

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