Working Families Tax Credit (Hansard, 12 February 2001)

§ Mr. Maclean
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has undertaken of the impact on the(a) working hours, (b) staffing and (c) financial cost to SMEs of operating the Working Families Tax Credit. [149369]

§ Dawn Primarolo
Estimates of the impact on small and medium-size enterprises of operating the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) are given in paragraphs 43 to 62 of the Regulatory Impact Assessment for the Tax Credits Bill 1999. A copy has been placed in the Library.

§ Mr. Gordon Prentice
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many farmers in(a) Lancashire and (b) England are in receipt of the Working Families Tax Credit. [149742]

§ Dawn Primarolo
It is estimated that about 11,000 families in England where the main earner was either a farmer or a worker in agricultural, forestry or fishing occupations were in receipt of the Working Families Tax Credit at the end of August 2000.
The 5 per cent. sample of awards on which these estimates are based does not yield a reliable estimate of the number of these families that were in Lancashire.