To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects to publish the Child Trust Fund annual report for 2009. (287319)

There is no date fixed for the publication of the next Child Trust Fund Annual Statistical Report.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of stakeholder child trust funds which have decreased in monetary value since they were taken out; and what estimate he has made of the average monetary value of such decreases. (288178)

HM Revenue and Customs does not hold data on how many individual child trust fund accounts have fallen or risen in value, nor what the average rise or fall in those values has been. Child trust funds are long-term investments, and the first accounts will not mature until 2020.