Social Security Benefits: Poplar and Limehouse

(asked on 1st March 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of freezing rates of child benefit and child tax credit on families in Poplar and Limehouse constituency.


Answered by
David Gauke Portrait
David Gauke
This question was answered on 6th March 2017

The Government has considered the impact on all benefits and tax credits rates that are included in the four year uprating freeze. The Government has published an impact assessment at:

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006C.pdf

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