To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which 35 areas have been selected for the working tax credit take-up campaign. (209847)

The areas targeted for the November 2007 working tax credit campaign were:

Carmarthenshire

Ceredigion

Clackmannanshire

Cleveland

Cornwall

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

Dumfries and Galloway

Dundee City

Durham

Eilean Siar

Greater Glasgow

Gwynedd

East Sussex

East Yorkshire

Greater London

Greater Manchester

Isle of Wight

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Merseyside

Norfolk

Northern Ireland

Northumberland

North Yorkshire

Nottinghamshire

Pembrokeshire

South Wales (Glamorgan and Gwent)

South Yorkshire

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Tyne and Wear

West Midlands.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the number of people who are eligible for working tax credit but have not applied for it. (210250)

Estimates of the number of households entitled to but not claiming working tax credits in 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 are published in Table 1 of the HMRC publications ‘Child and Working Tax Credit Take-up rates’, for each relevant year. These publications are available on the HMRC website at:

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