Working Tax Credit

(asked on 22nd October 2014) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-UK citizens from (a) other EU countries and (b) the rest of the world are in receipt of working tax credit.


Answered by
Priti Patel Portrait
Priti Patel
This question was answered on 10th November 2014

This information is not available.

I refer my hon. friend to the reply given on 1 May 2014, Official report, columns 799W-800W,

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140501/text/140501w0002.htm#14050155000316

for the number of families claiming tax credits where, if claiming as a couple, at least one of the family members was recorded as being a non-UK national when they registered for a National Insurance number (NINO).

These awards will include people who were recorded as being a non-UK national when they first registered for a NINO but now have UK nationality. The information cannot therefore be used to reliably determine the number of non-UK nationals in receipt of tax credits and was not intended to be used for that purpose.

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