§ Mr. Paul MarsdenTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when definitive estimates on the number of people who have benefited from(a) the national minimum wage and (b) the working families tax credit by parliamentary constituency will be available; and if he will make a statement. [114569]
§ Dawn PrimaroloThe information requested on the national minimum wage falls within the responsibility of the Office for National Statistics (ONS). I understand from ONS that definitive estimates by constituency of the370W number of people that have benefited from the national minimum wage are not yet available. Up to the end of March 2000, there had been 1.03 million awards made of the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) in the United Kingdom. Available figures by constituency are given in the tables which have been deposited in the Library.