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Treasury

Answer

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many claims for working families tax credit and disabled persons tax credit have been (a) investigated, (b) dealt with by way of penalty or caution, (c) made the subject of a prosecution and (d) made the subject of a prosecution or conviction in each year since the WFTC and DPTC commenced. [25102] Dawn Primarolo: The table gives the information requested on applications for WFTC and DPTC since the start of these tax credits in October 1999. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Period WFTC DPTC (a) Number of applications investigated October 1999 to March 2000 3,893 110 April 2000 to March 2001 28,930 644 April 2001 to December 2001 14,361 657 Total 47,184 1,411 (b) Number dealt with by Penalty October 1999 to September 2000 106 1 October 2000 to September 2001 401 8 October 2001 to December 2001 128 1 Total 6335 10 (c) and (d) Number of prosecutions October 1999 to March 2000 0 0 April 2000 to March 2001 12 0 April 2001 to December 2001 16 0 Total 28 0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

25102; 379 c1142-3W;379 c1136-7W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Abuse Criminal investigation Applications Convictions Disabled persons tax credit Fraud Prosecutions Welfare tax credits Working families tax credit

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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