Social Security Benefits: Children
(asked on 28th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they have spent on (1) benefits, and (2) tax credits, related to childcare and other child-related costs, broken down by each payment, in the last year for which figures are available.
The profile of spending on the Childcare Element of Universal Credit in 2018/19 was £100 million1. As the volume of claimants with children on legacy benefits decreases as they move to Universal Credit, spending on childcare will increase accordingly.
Spending on child-related benefits administered by HMRC are shown in the table below.
| 2018-19 |
Child Tax Credit (excluding childcare element)2 | £18.0 billion |
Tax Free Childcare 3 | £117 million |
Child Benefit 3 | £11.5 billion |
Notes:
- The Universal Credit spending is derived from internal DWP models, and costs have been rounded to the nearest £100 million.
- Total Child Tax Credits comes from HMRC 2018-19 Annual Report and Accounts. This is reduced by an estimate of the value that relates to the childcare element which is subject to a degree of uncertainty.
- From HMRC Receipts statistics.