David Gauke corrected a written answer on Welfare Tax Credits: Self-employed

24 March 2015 · Commons written answer · HM Treasury

Stephen Timms (Labour, East Ham) asked written question 202509 on 25 June 2014. Mr David Gauke answered on 3 July 2014 for the HM Treasury, and Mr David Gauke corrected the answer on 24 March 2015. The figure 170 in the original became 169 in the correction, lower by 1. Altogether 2 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many self-employed people claimed (a) child tax credits and (b) working tax credits in each of the last 10 years.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
The following table is based on finalised tax credits administrative data for each financial year. The latest data available are 2012-13. \| Thousands Tax Year \| Number of families in receipt of tax credits containing at least one member identified as self-employed \| Families benefitting from both WTC and CTC \| Families benefitting from WTC Only 2007-08 \| 740 \| 80 2008-09 \| 760 \| 100 2009-10 \| 780 \| 130 2010-11 \| 800 \| 150 2011-12 \| 750 \| 160 2012-13 \| 600 \| ~~170~~ Data from earlier years is only available at disproportionate cost. The decrease in the number of self employed households in 2012-13 can largely be explained by the removal of the ‘Second Income Threshold’ of tax credits in April 2012. This policy change removed a large number of higher income households from the whole tax credits population. In general, there is and has been a long term trend of growth in the number of self employed people.	The following table is based on finalised tax credits administrative data for each financial year. The latest data available are 2012-13. \| Thousands Tax Year \| Number of families in receipt of tax credits containing at least one member identified as self-employed \| Families benefitting from both WTC and CTC \| Families benefitting from WTC Only 2007-08 \| 740 \| 80 2008-09 \| 760 \| 100 2009-10 \| 780 \| 130 2010-11 \| 800 \| 150 2011-12 \| 750 \| 160 2012-13 \| 600 \| 169 Data from earlier years is only available at disproportionate cost. The decrease in the number of self employed households in 2012-13 can largely be explained by the removal of the ‘Second Income Threshold’ of tax credits in April 2012. This policy change removed a large number of higher income households from the whole tax credits population. In general, there is and has been a long term trend of growth in the number of self employed people.

Original

Corrected

The following table is based on finalised tax credits administrative data for each financial year. The latest data available are 2012-13.
| Thousands
Tax Year
| Number of families in receipt of tax credits containing at least one member identified as self-employed
| Families benefitting from both WTC and CTC
| Families benefitting from WTC Only
2007-08
| 740
| 80
2008-09
| 760
| 100
2009-10
| 780
| 130
2010-11
| 800
| 150
2011-12
| 750
| 160
2012-13
| 600
| ~~170~~
Data from earlier years is only available at disproportionate cost.
The decrease in the number of self employed households in 2012-13 can largely be explained by the removal of the ‘Second Income Threshold’ of tax credits in April 2012. This policy change removed a large number of higher income households from the whole tax credits population.
In general, there is and has been a long term trend of growth in the number of self employed people.

The following table is based on finalised tax credits administrative data for each financial year. The latest data available are 2012-13.
| Thousands
Tax Year
| Number of families in receipt of tax credits containing at least one member identified as self-employed
| Families benefitting from both WTC and CTC
| Families benefitting from WTC Only
2007-08
| 740
| 80
2008-09
| 760
| 100
2009-10
| 780
| 130
2010-11
| 800
| 150
2011-12
| 750
| 160
2012-13
| 600
| 169
Data from earlier years is only available at disproportionate cost.
The decrease in the number of self employed households in 2012-13 can largely be explained by the removal of the ‘Second Income Threshold’ of tax credits in April 2012. This policy change removed a large number of higher income households from the whole tax credits population.
In general, there is and has been a long term trend of growth in the number of self employed people.

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