Working Families Tax Credit

HC Deb 04 July 2000 vol 353 c176W

Mr. Willetts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families have been in receipt of Working Families Tax Credit in each month since March. [126911]

Dawn Primarolo

[holding answer 21 June 2000]: Provisional estimates of the number of families in receipt of Working Families Tax Credit at each end-month are as follows:

	Thousand
March 2000	1,052
April 2000	1,053

Estimated figures for the corresponding months last year are as follows:

	Thousand
March 1999	822
April 1999	823