§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate how many claimants there are of(a) working family tax credit child care payments, (b) disabled persons' tax credit and (c) disabled persons' tax credit child care payments in Newcastle upon Tyne; and what is the average payment in each case. [139646]
§ Dawn PrimaroloThere are too few cases in the 5 per cent. sample used for these analyses to provide reliable estimates at the local authority level of the number of families receiving the child care tax credit within Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC), or the average extra payment resulting from this credit.
For the total number of families benefiting from WFTC in Newcastle upon Tyne, I refer my hon. Friend to my answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Hull, North (Mr. McNamara) on 8 November 2000, Official Report, column 274W. About 6.7 per cent. of families on WFTC in the North East region at May 2000 received the child care tax credit, and their average extra payment resulting from this credit was about £29 per week.
Estimates of the number of recipients of the Disabled Person's Tax Credit (DPTC) in each local authority at the end of April are shown at Table 5.3 in the DPTC Quarterly Enquiry for April 2000. A copy has been placed in the Library. The average weekly payment to recipients in Newcastle upon Tyne was £67.