Working Families Tax Credit

HC Deb 20 March 2000 vol 346 cc439-40W

Mr. Cousins

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many claimants of family credit there were in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in each of the last three years; and how many claimants of the working families tax credit there are in the city. [111360]

disability. However, the number of mandatory award holders in each year is shown in the following table for comparison. Information on the number of students claiming DSAs in 1998–99, when DSAs were no longer means tested, should be available in April 2000.

	(a) with	(b) without	(c) Total
Average GCSE point score per pupil	39.5	35.4	38.0