Child Care Costs

HC Deb 28 July 1997 vol 299 cc107-8W

Ms Julie Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many families receiving family credit have an allowed claim for child care costs. [10912]

Mr. Keith Bradley

The latest figures available, as at February 1997, show there were 34,000 families receiving family credit with an allowed claim for child care costs in Great Britain.

Source:

Family credit statistics quarterly inquiry, February 1997.

Ms Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how many families are receiving less than 70 per cent. of their allowed child care costs because they are at maximum family credit levels; [10913]

(2) how many families in receipt of maximum family credit have an allowed claim for child care costs. [10914]

Mr. Bradley

As at February 1997, the latest date for which information is available, 14,000 families were in receipt of maximum family credit with an allowed claim for child care costs—receiving less than 70 per cent. of their allowed child care costs.

Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand.

2. Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample and as such are subject to a degree of sampling error.

Source:

Family credit statistics quarterly inquiry February 1997.