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Welfare Tax Credits

Answer

The total amount of Tax Credit entitlement of recipients in each of the last three tax years can be found in Table 1.

£ millions
Table 1: Total entitlement of Tax Credit recipients
Year	Out-of-work	In-work	All
2010-11	7,606	20,936	28,542
2011-12	8,138	21,066	29,203
2012-13	8,903	19,876	28,779

Figures in Table 1 are presented in £ millions, to the nearest 1 million, in line with HM Revenue and Customs publications. Breakdowns of recipients out-of-work and in-work have also been provided for context. Breakdowns of recipients in full-time employment, or otherwise, are unavailable.

2012-13 is the most recent year available for which finalised statistics have been produced.

Figures have been taken from Table 1.1 of the online publication ‘Child and Working Tax Credit Statistics: Finalised Annual Awards 2012-13’.

Figures providing total expenditure forecasts for Tax Credits in the current tax year, and the two following years can be found in Table 2.

£ billions
Table 2: Total expenditure forecasts of Tax Credits
Year	All
2014-15	29.7
2015-16	29.5
2016-17	29.8

Figures in Table 2 are presented in £ billions, to the nearest 100 million, in line with Office for Budget Responsibility publications.

Breakdowns by employment status, full-time or otherwise are unavailable. These figures are taken from the ‘March 2015 Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Fiscal Supplementary Tables’ produced by the Office for Budget Responsibility and take into consideration Tax Credits as expenditure.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL5922

Session

2014-15

Subjects

Employment Welfare tax credits

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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