Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the annual cost of recognising family responsibility in the income tax system has been in each financial year since 2010.

The Government supports families in a number of ways, including through the tax and welfare systems.

The income tax system does this through various allowances including the married couples allowance and marriage allowance, and by providing tax reliefs for childcare. The Government also supports families through increasing tax thresholds including increasing the Personal Allowance to £12,500 for 2019 to 2020.

The annual costs of most of these types of support in each financial year since 2010 have been set out in various HMRC publications.