PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Child Tax Credits: North East (7 December 2015)

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received child tax credits in (a) Houghton and Sunderland South constituency and (b) the North East in each year for which figures are available; and what the mean, mode, median and range is of tax credit payments made in those areas in each of those years.

Asked by:
Bridget Phillipson (Labour)

The number of families in receipt of Child Tax Credit in (a) Houghton and Sunderland South constituency and (b) the North East in each year are available in the following publications:

• 2013/14:

  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2013-to-2014

• 2012/13:

  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2012-to-2013

• 2011/12:

  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics

• 2010/11:

  http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121103084242/http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/child-wtc-geo-may12.pdf

  
  

  Within each publication, the requested information is available on Table 3. Families receiving Child Tax Credit consist of out of work families plus in-work families receiving either WTC and CTC or CTC only.

• The requested statistics are provided in the table below. To ensure claimant anonymity, the 99^th percentile of entitlement is shown rather than the range.

  
  

  Houghton and Sunderland South	2013-14	2012-13	2011-12	2010-11
  Number of families in receipt of Child Tax Credit '000	6.5	6.8	8.5	9.6
  Mean of annualised entitlements £	6,282	6,176	5,335	4,918
  Mode of annualised entitlements £	3,270	3,238	544	548
  Median of annualised entitlements £	5,993	5,928	5,006	4,382
  99th percentile of entitlements £	17,735	17,213	16,561	16,683
  North East	2013-14	2012-13	2011-12	2010-11
  Number of families in receipt of Child Tax Credit '000	179.0	184.7	232.3	261.0
  Mean of annualised entitlements £	6,508	6,367	5,479	4,998
  Mode of annualised entitlements £	3,270	3,238	544	548
  Median of annualised entitlements £	5,993	5,928	5,341	4,518
  99th percentile of annualised entitlements £	18,849	18,230	17,224	16,834

  
  

Answered by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative)
15 December 2015