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<p>Following the review by the Office for Statistics Regulation, HMRC proposed changes
to 25 statistics publications in a public consultation that ran from 24 October 2022
to 16 January 2023. In response to the user consultation the annual Income Tax, NICs,
tax credits and child benefit statistics for non-UK nationals release was discontinued.
The consultation suggested the statistics to be of limited value to users, due to
the decrease in data coverage as tax credits claimants move across to Universal Credit,
and the lack of timeliness in the data.</p><p> </p><p>Separately the DWP reviewed
the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/nationality-at-point-of-national-insurance-number-registration-of-dwp-working-age-benefit-recipients-data-to-november-2020"
target="_blank">Nationality at point of National Insurance number registration of
DWP working age benefit recipients</a>’ statistics and announced in July 2022 that
it would be ceasing publication of these statistics as they no longer met the purpose
for which they were created. The statistics reflected the nationality status of the
benefit claimants at the point of National Insurance number (NINo) registration, which
does not necessarily reflect the nationality at the point of claiming the benefit,
as the allocation of a NINo can be made many years, or even decades, before an individual
claims a benefit. Therefore, benefit recipients who were non-UK nationals and subsequently
obtained British citizenship would have been counted in those statistics as non-UK
nationals.</p><p> </p><p>The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-changes-to-hmrc-statistics-publications/consultation-on-changes-to-hmrc-statistics-publications"
target="_blank">proposals and outcomes from the consultation on changes to HMRC statistics
publications</a> are published on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does publish information
on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-payrolled-employments-by-nationality-region-and-industry"
target="_blank">non-UK nationals in PAYE employment by nationality, region and industry</a>
on GOV.UK.</p>
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