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Working Tax Credit

Volume 502: debated on Monday 7 December 2009

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of enabling recipients of the childcare element of working tax credit to continue to receive it for 12 weeks following redundancy; and if he will make a statement; (303737)

(2) how many unemployed people claimed the childcare element of working tax credit in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

I refer the hon. Member to the answers given to the hon. Member on 1 December 2009, Official Report, column 604W.