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Welfare Tax Credits

Volume 504: debated on Monday 18 January 2010

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how much was paid in interim or emergency payments of tax credits in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2007-08 and (d) 2008-09; (308191)

(2) how much has been allocated for interim or emergency payments of tax credits in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11;

(3) how many requests were received for interim or emergency payments of tax credits in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2007-08 and (d) 2008-09.

The information requested is not collated centrally and would be available only at disproportionate cost due to the work required to aggregate data from across HM Revenue and Customs. No separate allocation is made for interim/emergency tax credits payments.