HC Deb 16 January 2002 vol 378 cc306-7W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give for each local authority in East Lancashire the most recent take-up rates for working families tax credit and the last available take-up rates for family credit. [28180]

Dawn Primarolo

It is not possible to produce reliable estimates of take-up rates for each local authority.

Mr. Hepburn

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many households in South Tyneside have benefited from the working families tax credit. [28064]

Dawn Primarolo

The number of recipients of working families tax credit and disabled person's tax credit in each local authority and in each constituency are shown in "Working Families' and Disabled Person's Tax Credit Statistics. Geographical analyses", copies of which are in the Library and on the Inland Revenue website, www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk, under "Statistics".

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many employers have been(a) fined and (b) prosecuted for wrongly calculating employees' entitlement to working families tax credit. [27466]

Dawn Primarolo

None.