Child Tax Credit (Hansard, 6 April 2000)

§ 18. Mr. Heald
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families that qualified for the married couples allowance in 1999–2000 will not qualify for the child tax credit in 2001–02. [116620]

§ 24. Mr. Nicholas Winterton
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many married couples that qualified for the married couples allowance in 1999–2000 will not qualify for the child tax credit in 2001–02. [116626]

§ Dawn Primarolo
As a result of measures we have taken in this and previous Budgets, pensioner households will from next April be on average £400 a year better off, and families with children will be on average £850 a year better off; and the number of couples liable for higher rate tax as a result of the withdrawal of married couples allowance will be zero.