Welfare Tax Credits: Vale of Clwyd

(asked on 13th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in the Vale of Clwyd received (a) working tax credits and (b) child tax credits in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 21st November 2017

The table below contains estimates of the number of claimants of working tax credits and child tax credits in the Vale of Clwyd.

Thousands

Year

WTC only Claimants

CTC only Claimants

CTC & WTC Claimants

2016-17*

0.5

2.9

2.3

2015-16

0.7

2.9

2.3

2014-15

0.8

3.1

2.3

2013-14

0.8

3.1

2.3

2012-13

0.8

3.2

2.4

Note:

The figures above show claimants of WTC or CTC exclusively and claimants of both WTC and CTC.

* These figures are provisional and are subject to change once awards have been finalised. Finalisation usually takes 4-9 months to assess the impact of a claimant/s change in circumstance on an award.

This information is from Table 3 of HMRCs Child and Working Tax Credits Statistics: Finalised Annual Awards Geographical Analyses and Table 4 of HMRCs Child and Working Tax Credits Statistics: Provisional Award Geographical Analyses, which can be found at the following links:

(2012-13)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/634469/main_geographical__1213-final_.pdf

(2013-14)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/634398/main_geographical__1314-final_.pdf

(2014-15)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/634389/main_geographical_1415-final.pdf

(2015-16)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/622524/Child_and_Working_Tax_Credits_statistics_finalised_annual_awards_-_geographical_analysis_2015_to_2016.pdf

(2016-17)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/613427/cwtc-geog-Apr17.pdf

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