Child Benefit
(asked on 19th April 2022) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish data on the proportion and number of child benefit payment recipient families by gender of claimant for each year from 2009 to 2018 inclusive.
HMRC publishes counts of Child Benefit claimants by gender in the Child Benefit Statistics: annual release publication. For ease, this has been recreated below with additional columns summarising these counts as a proportion of their respective totals for each year from 2009 to 2018 inclusive.
Gender of claimants in receipt of Child Benefit payments, 2009 to 2018 | |||||||
| Total | Number of claimants | Number of claimants as a % of total | ||||
| Female | Male | Unavailable | Female | Male | Unavailable | |
August 2009 | 7,769,880 | 7,065,405 | 668,790 | 35,690 | 91% | 9% | 0% |
August 2010 | 7,841,675 | 7,078,790 | 700,695 | 62,190 | 90% | 9% | 1% |
August 2011 | 7,884,760 | 7,077,800 | 724,505 | 82,450 | 90% | 9% | 1% |
August 2012 | 7,920,495 | 7,063,860 | 753,685 | 102,950 | 89% | 10% | 1% |
August 2013 | 7,550,265 | 6,692,210 | 749,345 | 108,710 | 89% | 10% | 1% |
August 2014 | 7,461,675 | 6,569,085 | 772,265 | 120,325 | 88% | 10% | 2% |
August 2015 | 7,416,800 | 6,484,145 | 799,205 | 133,450 | 87% | 11% | 2% |
August 2016 | 7,396,355 | 6,416,240 | 833,655 | 146,455 | 87% | 11% | 2% |
August 2017 | 7,376,965 | 6,350,900 | 866,485 | 159,580 | 86% | 12% | 2% |
August 2018 | 7,325,845 | 6,412,685 | 872,470 | 40,685 | 88% | 12% | 1% |
Source: Child Benefit Statistics: annual release, August 2021