Tax Credits (Northampton) (Hansard, 24 July 2000)

§ Ms Keeble
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families in Northampton North have received the Working Families Tax Credit. [131941]

§ Dawn Primarolo
The number of families in receipt of Working Families Tax Credit at the end of May 2000 is provisionally estimated at 1,056,000. Available figures by constituency are given in tables which have been deposited in the Library.

§ Ms Keeble
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families in Northampton North have received the Children's Tax Credit. [131942]

§ Dawn Primarolo
The Children's Tax Credit will be announced from 6 April 2001. I am afraid an estimate of the number of families in Northampton, North who could benefit from it is not available, but an estimated 400,000 families in the East Midlands could do so.