To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 12 June 2007, Official Report, columns 940-41W, on lone parents, if he will estimate the average tax credit payment being made to single parents entitled to working tax credit, including the child care element, and child tax credit. (146283)

[holding answer 28 June 2007]: Information on the number of single parent families benefiting from child and working tax credits, by band of entitlement, is available in table 2.10 of the HMRC publication “Child and Working Tax Credits Statistics. Finalised Annual Awards 2005-06”, which is available on the HMRC website at:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/cwtc-quarterly-stats.htm