Working Families Tax Credit (Threshold)

HC Deb 11 July 2001 vol 371 c578W

Ms Buck

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the cost of increasing the threshold level of income at which Working Families Tax Credit starts to be withdrawn to(a) £120, (b) £150 and (c) £200. [1561]

Dawn Primarolo

The estimated annual costs are(a) £0.7 billion, (b) £1.3 billion and (c) £2.5 billion.