To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how employed status youth training or employment training trainees should make a claim for family credit; what is the best information he has about the number of employed status trainees who are claiming family credit; and if he will make a statement.

Employed status YT and ET trainees can make a claim for family credit on form FC1 in the same way as any other employed person. No information is available about the number of employed status trainees receiving family credit.