HC Deb 25 January 2001 vol 361 cc702-3W
16. Laura Moffatt

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families were in receipt of the Working Families Tax Credit on(a) 1 January 1998 and (b) at the latest date for which figures are available. [145808]

Dawn Primarolo

Working Families Tax Credit was introduced in October 1999. The number of families in the United Kingdom who were in receipt of Family Credit (the precursor to Working Families Tax Credit) at the end of January 1998 was 778,000. At the end of August 2000—the latest date for which figures are available—there were 1,129,000 families in the United Kingdom receiving Working Families Tax Credit.