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To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much they pay to Bounty to distribute packs with child benefit forms to new parents on NHS wards. [HL3164]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much they pay to Bounty to distribute packs with child benefit forms to new parents on NHS wards. [HL3164]
HMRC use the services of Bounty to help distribute Child Benefit claim packs to new mothers in NHS hospitals. The contract for this service is held by HMRC’s Print Vendor Provider, Williams Lea. Using the Bounty pack as one channel for distributing Child Benefit forms has proved efficient and cost effective. The Child Benefit form can also be obtained through other channels, notably the HMRC website.
In 2012-13, HMRC paid £85,990.27 (ex VAT) for Bounty to distribute a total of 857,939 English and Welsh language claim forms.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have a contract with Bounty which allows that company to distribute packs with child benefit forms to new parents on NHS wards.[HL3163]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have a contract with Bounty which allows that company to distribute packs with child benefit forms to new parents on NHS wards.[HL3163]
HMRC use the services of Bounty to help distribute Child Benefit claim packs to new mothers in NHS hospitals. The contract for this service is held by HMRC’s Print Vendor Provider, Williams Lea. Using the Bounty pack as one channel for distributing Child Benefit forms has proved efficient and cost effective. The Child Benefit form can also be obtained through other channels, notably the HMRC website.
In 2012-13, HMRC paid £85,990.27 (ex VAT) for Bounty to distribute a total of 857,939 English and Welsh language claim forms.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his Department has taken steps to make parents aware that, following the recent changes to child benefits, if they elect not to receive that benefit, they could lose their future national insurance carer's credit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his Department has taken steps to make parents aware that, following the recent changes to child benefits, if they elect not to receive that benefit, they could lose their future national insurance carer's credit.
I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Chris Leslie), on 18 January 2013, Official Report, column 985W, on ‘National Insurance Credits’.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they take to ensure Bounty staff treat patients appropriately when distributing packs with child benefit forms to new parents on NHS wards. [HL3165]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they take to ensure Bounty staff treat patients appropriately when distributing packs with child benefit forms to new parents on NHS wards. [HL3165]
It is for individual trusts to make decisions about representatives from Bounty or any other organisation being allowed on maternity wards and distributing packs.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, Dr Daniel Poulter, has written to all NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts and Heads of Midwifery asking them to review their practices for allowing representatives from private companies on maternity wards and to assure themselves that they are maintaining women’s dignity and respect shortly after the birth of a baby when they can be tired and vulnerable.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy to split child benefit between parents that have shared custody; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy to split child benefit between parents that have shared custody; and if he will make a statement.
Although splitting the support may appear straightforward, the reality is likely to be quite different. If, under current arrangements, parents cannot agree who should receive the support, they are just as unlikely to agree about how the payments should be split where more formal arrangements exist.
Directing payment of child benefit to the person mainly responsible for looking after the children ensures that the money goes to the person most likely to be providing day to day care. Even where care of the child is shared it is usually the case that there is one person that bears more of the weight of everyday responsibility for the child and meets the everyday expenditure.
The Government has already prioritised investing in early education and child care to support all families, including those with separated parents, through:
extending the free entitlement to provide 15 hours a week of free early education and child care for all three and four-year-olds, and to 40% of two-year-olds from lower income families; and
providing 70% of child care costs through the working tax credit and extending this support under universal credit to those working fewer than 16 hours a week.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many non-United Kingdom non-European Union nationals are claiming (1) jobseeker's allowance, (2) income support, (3) employment support allowance, (4) disability living allowance, (5) child benefit and child tax credit, (6) retirement pension, and (7) housing benefit, in the United Kingdom; and what percentage of...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many non-United Kingdom non-European Union nationals are claiming (1) jobseeker's allowance, (2) income support, (3) employment support allowance, (4) disability living allowance, (5) child benefit and child tax credit, (6) retirement pension, and (7) housing benefit, in the United Kingdom; and what percentage of...
The information requested is not available.
However analysts in my Department have released estimates, for Great Britain and each Region in Great Britain, on working age benefit recipients which can be found in the publication for NINo allocations to adult overseas nationals entering the UK: registrations to March 2013 here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nino-allocations-to-adult-overseas-nationals-entering-the-uk-registrations-to-march-2013
Information relating to Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit is the responsibility of HMRC.
Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:
http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many non-United Kingdom European Union nationals are claiming (1) jobseeker's allowance, (2) income support, (3) employment support allowance, (4) disability living allowance, (5) child benefit and child tax credit, (6) retirement pension, and (7) housing benefit, in the United Kingdom; and what percentage of...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many non-United Kingdom European Union nationals are claiming (1) jobseeker's allowance, (2) income support, (3) employment support allowance, (4) disability living allowance, (5) child benefit and child tax credit, (6) retirement pension, and (7) housing benefit, in the United Kingdom; and what percentage of...
The information requested is not available.
However analysts in my Department have released estimates, for Great Britain and each Region in Great Britain, on working age benefit recipients which can be found in the publication for NINo allocations to adult overseas nationals entering the UK: registrations to March 2013 here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nino-allocations-to-adult-overseas-nationals-entering-the-uk-registrations-to-march-2013
Information relating to Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit is the responsibility of HMRC.
Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:
http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what alternative support is available to families when young people undertaking apprenticeships no longer qualify for child benefit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what alternative support is available to families when young people undertaking apprenticeships no longer qualify for child benefit.
We do not provide an alternative to child benefit when a family no longer qualifies for it. Apprentices aged under 19 are paid at least £2.65 per hour (increasing to £2.68 per hour on 1 October). Depending on their income, families may qualify for additional support such as housing benefit or working tax credit. The young adult may qualify for benefits or additional support in their own right, depending on their circumstances.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of people claiming child benefit for children living outside the UK; and if he will make a statement.
[165661]
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of people claiming child benefit for children living outside the UK; and if he will make a statement.
[165661]
I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.
European economic area nationals with a right to reside in the UK are entitled under European law to claim child benefit in respect of their dependent children resident outside the UK.
These rules also apply to UK nationals living elsewhere in the EEA claiming that country's equivalent of child benefit for their children resident in the UK.
The Government is reviewing the rules for this issue in line with making sure that the UK has a fair and proportional welfare system.
As the right hon. Gentleman knows, that is an existing problem. The European Union insists that family benefits are paid at the highest level, depending on which country the recipient is in. Someone coming to the UK to work from, say, Poland would still get their family benefit paid to them, but if it is lower than family benefits over here, the top-up amount will go back to their families. I believe that is iniquitous, and I am not alone. I have had a series of discussions with others from Holland, Denmark and Germany, and there is a genuine consensus—it is growing dramatically—that it is wrong and that we need to change it, so we are engaging with the Commission on a plan to change it.
As the right hon. Gentleman knows, that is an existing problem. The European Union insists that family benefits are paid at the highest level, depending on which country the recipient is in. Someone coming to the UK to work from, say, Poland would still get their family benefit paid to them, but if it is lower than family benefits over here, the top-up amount will go back to their families. I believe that is iniquitous, and I am not alone. I have had a series of discussions with others from Holland, Denmark and Germany, and there is a genuine consensus—it is growing dramatically—that it is wrong and that we need to change it, so we are engaging with the Commission on a plan to change it.
Last year the parents of 47,009 children living abroad received child benefit totalling £55 million. What steps is the Secretary of State taking to fulfil the promise he made on 30 May to fight every step of the way to resolve that issue?
Last year the parents of 47,009 children living abroad received child benefit totalling £55 million. What steps is the Secretary of State taking to fulfil the promise he made on 30 May to fight every step of the way to resolve that issue?
Last year the parents of 47,009 children living abroad received child benefit totalling £55 million. What steps is the Secretary of State taking to fulfil the promise he made on 30 May to fight every step of the way to resolve that issue?
As the right hon. Gentleman knows, that is an existing problem. The European Union insists that family benefits are paid at the highest level, depending on which country the recipient is in. Someone coming to the UK to work from, say, Poland would still get their family benefit paid to them, but if it is lower than family benefits over here, the top-up amount will go back to their families. I believe that is iniquitous, and I am not alone. I have had a series of discussions with others from Holland, Denmark and Germany, and there is a genuine consensus—it is growing dramatically—that it is wrong and that we need to change it, so we are engaging with the Commission on a plan to change it.
In January 2013 a new income tax charge was introduced to reduce or remove the financial benefit of receiving child benefit for those on high incomes. For taxpayers with incomes between £50,000 and £60,000, the amount of the charge is a proportion of the child benefit received. For taxpayers with income above £60,000, the amount of the charge is equal to the amount of child benefit received. Eighty-five per cent. of families with children continue to benefit in full from child benefit. Entitlement to child benefit payments remains universal and will continue to be paid to all those who claim it.
In January 2013 a new income tax charge was introduced to reduce or remove the financial benefit of receiving child benefit for those on high incomes. For taxpayers with incomes between £50,000 and £60,000, the amount of the charge is a proportion of the child benefit received. For taxpayers with income above £60,000, the amount of the charge is equal to the amount of child benefit received. Eighty-five per cent. of families with children continue to benefit in full from child benefit. Entitlement to child benefit payments remains universal and will continue to be paid to all those who claim it.
In January 2013 a new income tax charge was introduced to reduce or remove the financial benefit of receiving child benefit for those on high incomes. For taxpayers with incomes between £50,000 and £60,000, the amount of the charge is a proportion of the child benefit received. For taxpayers with income above £60,000, the amount of the charge is equal to the amount of child benefit received. Eighty-five per cent. of families with children continue to benefit in full from child benefit. Entitlement to child benefit payments remains universal and will continue to be paid to all those who claim it.
I am delighted to hear about the savings that will be achieved, especially given that those of us who supported them were told by the Labour party that they would destroy the universal principle, and that they were complicated, unfair and unworkable. It now appears that they are workable, and the Opposition have accepted that they will not change the policy. Will my hon. Friend share with us what vital provision of services those savings can achieve, and will he also consider means-testing the winter fuel allowance?
I am delighted to hear about the savings that will be achieved, especially given that those of us who supported them were told by the Labour party that they would destroy the universal principle, and that they were complicated, unfair and unworkable. It now appears that they are workable, and the Opposition have accepted that they will not change the policy. Will my hon. Friend share with us what vital provision of services those savings can achieve, and will he also consider means-testing the winter fuel allowance?
There is a substantial saving to the Exchequer through child benefit. It was not that long ago when the Leader of the Opposition said that millionaires should receive child benefit because
“it’s a cornerstone of our system to have universal benefits”.
It appears that that is no longer the case, although all we have is briefing. On winter fuel payments, the Prime Minister made it clear that they would continue in the course of this Parliament and we will fulfil that commitment.
There is a substantial saving to the Exchequer through child benefit. It was not that long ago when the Leader of the Opposition said that millionaires should receive child benefit because
“it’s a cornerstone of our system to have universal benefits”.
It appears that that is no longer the case, although all we have is briefing. On winter fuel payments, the Prime Minister made it clear that they would continue in the course of this Parliament and we will fulfil that commitment.
There is a substantial saving to the Exchequer through child benefit. It was not that long ago when the Leader of the Opposition said that millionaires should receive child benefit because
“it’s a cornerstone of our system to have universal benefits”.
It appears that that is no longer the case, although all we have is briefing. On winter fuel payments, the Prime Minister made it clear that they would continue in the course of this Parliament and we will fulfil that commitment.
I am delighted to hear about the savings that will be achieved, especially given that those of us who supported them were told by the Labour party that they would destroy the universal principle, and that they were complicated, unfair and unworkable. It now appears that they are workable, and the Opposition have accepted that they will not change the policy. Will my hon. Friend share with us what vital provision of services those savings can achieve, and will he also consider means-testing the winter fuel allowance?
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent in total on child benefit for families with (a) one, (b) two and (c) three or more children in the last year for which figures are available.
[161373]
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent in total on child benefit for families with (a) one, (b) two and (c) three or more children in the last year for which figures are available.
[161373]
Estimates of the amount of child benefit paid in respect of one child, two child and three or more child families are shown in the following table for each of the last three fiscal years.
The exact amount spent on these families will not be strictly equal to this, as this calculation assumes all families have exactly the same circumstances throughout the year, which in reality will not be the case for all. For this reason estimates have been rounded to the nearest £100 million.
| One
child | Two
children | Three
or more
children | Total | |
| 2012-13 | 5.8 | 4.5 | 1.9 | 12.2 |
| 2011-12 | 5.7 | 4.5 | 1.9 | 12.2 |
| 2010-11 | 5.7 | 4.6 | 1.9 | 12.2 |
| Note: Numbers presented are in billions and may not sum due to rounding. |
These estimates are derived by taking the proportion of one, two and three+ child families from the August publication in each year and applying these proportions to the final expenditure figure for that fiscal year.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what consideration he has given to making child benefit claim forms available through registry offices as an alternative to bounty packs.
[159694]
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what consideration he has given to making child benefit claim forms available through registry offices as an alternative to bounty packs.
[159694]
Child benefit claim forms may be obtained from the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) website, the HMRC Child Benefit Helpline or through Bounty packs. As Bounty packs are given out to new mothers shortly after birth HMRC is able to provide 97% of mothers with their child benefit claim forms within days of giving birth.
HMRC does not currently have any arrangement with Registry Offices for distributing child benefit claim forms. However, any Registry Office, may if it so chooses, download the form from the website and pass it to new mothers.
The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013. The Government’s response to consultation on draft regulations. 9 p.
The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013. The Government’s response to consultation on draft regulations. 9 p.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance he has issued to local authorities on the treatment of child benefit in calculating entitlement to council tax support.
[158355]
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance he has issued to local authorities on the treatment of child benefit in calculating entitlement to council tax support.
[158355]
The Department for Communities and Local Government has published guidance to ensure that local authorities understand their existing responsibilities in relation to vulnerable groups and child poverty in designing and implementing council tax support schemes. It is for local authorities to decide how child benefit is treated within local schemes.
The guidance document “Localising Council Tax Support: Vulnerable people—key local authority duties” is available on the Gov.uk website.