§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the receipts generated by taxing child benefit at the top rate. [21587]
§ Mr. Geoffrey RobinsonI have been asked to reply.
If child benefit were taxed, the yield for 1998–99 from taxing it as part of the father's or lone mother's income would be about £1,400 million. If it were taxed as part of the mother's or lone father's income, the yield would be about £700 million.