Childcare Tax Credit

HC Deb 14 May 2004 vol 421 cc614-5W

Mr. Willetts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many spot checks the Inland Revenue has carried out on child care providers to check that the childcare tax credit has been properly used in each quarter since the introduction of the childcare tax credit. [171603]

Dawn Primarolo

Of working tax credit awards for 2003–04 that included help with child care costs, there were about 350,000 instances in which claimants reported making payments to child care providers. For all of these, Inland Revenue has contacted the child care provider by letter or telephone to check child care.