§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many award notices for the(a) child tax credit and (b) working tax credit have been issued. [108480]
§ Dawn PrimaroloThere is a single award notice for both child tax credit and working tax credit.
By 9 April 2003, about 3.2 million award notices had been issued. This includes notices issued to single adults and to each partner in couples.
§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the targets for processing(a) child and (b) working tax credit claim forms and the performance against those targets. [108483]
§ Dawn PrimaroloThe Inland Revenue will be set targets for the future administration of the new tax credits system later this year once there is sufficient experience of live running to make those targets both challenging and achievable.
§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many calls have been made to the tax credit helpline in each month since it was established. [106142]
§ Mr. TynanTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many telephone calls the Inland Revenue Children's and Working Tax Credits helpline dealt with in(a) February and (b) March 2003. [107556]
§ Dawn Primarolo[holding answer 1 April 2003]: A helpline was set up in August 2002 to handle detailed inquiries about the two new tax credits. The number of calls answered at the helpline in Great Britain in each month since then is set out in the following table.
Calls received August 2002 28,453 September 2002 179,484 October 2002 324,381 November 2002 394,205 December 2002 267,757 January 2003 851,851 February 2003 1,168,131 March 2003 2,486,846
§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many phone calls the Child Tax Credit helpline has received over the last month. [107290]
§ Dawn PrimaroloThe latest month for which complete information is available is March 2003. The Great Britain tax credit helpline answered 2,486,846 calls in this month.
§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many awards for the(a) child tax credit and (b) working tax credit have been paid in Northern Ireland. [110366]
§ Dawn PrimaroloI refer the hon. Member to my answer to the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) on 19 March 2003,Official Report, column 760W.
§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the targets for processing child and working tax credit claim forms and the performance against those targets for Northern Ireland in the latest year for which figures are available. [110367]
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§ Dawn PrimaroloThe Inland Revenue will be set targets for the future administration of the new tax credits system later this year once there is sufficient experience of live running to make those targets both challenging and achievable.
§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families in Northern Ireland(a) were entitled to and (b) received the children's tax credit in the last year for which figures are available. [110368]
§ Dawn PrimaroloBased on household survey data, it is estimated that about 125,000 families in Northern Ireland could benefit from the children's tax credit.
No estimate can be made of the number of families in Northern Ireland actually benefiting from the children's tax credit for 2001–02 until the Survey of Personal Incomes is compiled towards the end of this year.
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many applications were(a) made, (b) outstanding, (c) approved and (d) refused in each of the last six months for the working families tax credit; and what the cumulative backlog in applications was at 31 March. [108795]
§ Dawn Primarolo[holding answer 14 April 2003]: The figures requested are:
Applications received in
month
Awards made in
month
Other disposals in
month1
Applications on hand2 at
last Friday
last Friday
in month
October 2002 335,000 303.000 62,000 75,000 November 2002 166,000 182,000 27,000 32,000 December 2002 55,000 52,000 19,000 20,000 January 2003 54,000 40,000 14,000 19,000 February 2003 34,000 27,000 9,000 18,000 March 2003 52,000 13,000 6,000 253,000 1 Estimated by subtracting from the number of applications received the number of awards made and the increase in the number of applications on hand. 2 Excluding applications received but not yet registered—there were about 3,000 of these at the end of March 2003.