Question reference: S4W-16530
- Asked by: Jamie Hepburn, MSP for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 29 July 2013
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Current status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 2 October 2013
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many children in Scotland were affected by the abolition of child trust funds and how many were from (a) low income and (b) the poorest 30% of households.
Answer
As this policy relates to a reserved matter, we do not hold detailed information on numbers affected as a result of the abolition of the policy.
However, a broad estimate suggests that in total around 580,000 children in Scotland will have been affected by the abolition of this policy, up to June and the end of 2013. This includes 147,000 newborns who will have missed out on both the initial and the age seven top-up payment and a further 423,000 children who will have missed out on the age seven top-up payment.
(a) Around 87,000 of these will have come from low income households
(b) And within this total, 29,000 will have come from the poorest 30% of households.