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1702168

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of freezing the level of the tax-free Personal Allowance on the economy; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing this level.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	22481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to keeping taxes low to support people to keep more of what they earn. The Personal Allowance has nearly doubled since 2010 and is over 20% higher in real terms.</p><p> </p><p>As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government keeps the Personal Allowance under review and any decisions on future changes will be made by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 24/04/2024 08:51:21 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1689165

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of raising the level of the tax-free Personal Allowance on the economy.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	14101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government will keep the Personal Allowance under review and any decisions on future changes will be taken by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 14102 question first answered 26/02/2024 16:20:52 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1689166

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will raise the level of the tax-free Personal Allowance.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	14102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government will keep the Personal Allowance under review and any decisions on future changes will be taken by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 14101 question first answered 26/02/2024 16:20:52 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1689167

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of raising the level of the tax-free Personal Allowance on pensioners.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	14103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that older people are able to live with the dignity and respect they deserve. The Personal Allowance is currently set at a level high enough to ensure that those pensioners whose sole income is the full new State Pension or basic State Pension do not pay any income tax.</p><p> </p><p>As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government will keep the Personal Allowance under review and any decisions on future changes will be taken by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 22/02/2024 14:09:46 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1688617

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to raise the personal allowance threshold in the forthcoming Budget.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	13842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to keeping taxes low to support people to keep more of what they earn. However, the Government must also ensure the UK’s economic stability and provide confidence in the commitment to fiscal discipline. The Chancellor has made clear that the UK’s public finances must be on a sustainable path into the medium term.</p><p>As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government will keep the Personal Allowance under review and any decisions on future changes will be taken by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 21/02/2024 12:13:13 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1687437

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to lift the freeze on personal tax allowance.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	12901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to keeping taxes low to support people to keep more of what they earn. However, the Government must also ensure the UK’s economic stability and provide confidence in the commitment to fiscal discipline. The Chancellor has made clear that the UK’s public finances must be on a sustainable path into the medium term.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 09/02/2024 11:46:13 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1672710

registered interest
date	23/11/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the impact of freezing the personal allowance on the average amount of income tax paid in 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	3515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text The Government is committed to keeping taxes low to support working people to keep more of what they earn. However, the Government must also ensure the UK’s economic stability and provide confidence in the commitment to fiscal discipline. The Chancellor has made clear that the UK’s public finances must be on a sustainable path into the medium term.<p> </p><p>Because of above inflation increases to thresholds since 2010, an average worker on £35,400 in 2023-24 will pay over £1,000 less in personal taxes than they otherwise would have done if thresholds had risen by inflation since 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 30/11/2023 13:20:02 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1605182

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing income tax relief in cases where a portion of a taxpayer's income is used to subsidise the (a) costs of living and (b) course fees of another person who is in college or university education.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	168061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government has provided a significant package of support to help households and individuals with the cost of living, taken together this is worth over £94 billion over 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.</p><p> </p><p>There are a wide range of factors to take into consideration when introducing a tax relief. These include, but are not limited to: how effective the relief would be at achieving the policy intent, how targeted support would be, whether it adds complexity to the tax system and the cost.</p><p> </p><p>Such an income tax relief would be regressive, as it would be of greatest benefit to those paying higher rates of tax while low-earning individuals with income below the Personal Allowance or the higher rate threshold would benefit less or not at all.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does keep all aspects of the tax system under review.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 27/03/2023 13:51:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1470003

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the additional revenue the Treasury has received as a result of its decision not to index personal tax allowances for each year since the decision was taken; and what estimate they have made of the additional revenue that will be received by May 2024.
tabling member printed	Lord Field of Birkenhead
uin	HL873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>At Spring Budget 2021, the Government took the difficult but necessary decision to raise taxes to repair the public finances following the largest economic recession on record. The Government announced that the Income Tax Personal Allowance (PA) and the higher rate threshold will be maintained from 6 April 2022 until 5 April 2026 at £12,570 and £50,270 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Budget Responsibility recently published their March 2022 Economic and fiscal outlook. This includes the latest estimate for yearly yield from maintaining the income tax thresholds.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 23/06/2022 12:30:19 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1256340

registered interest
date	27/11/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many workers earned below the personal income tax threshold in (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, and (4) Northern Ireland, for the tax year 2018/19.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL10796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2020 answer text <p>The table below sets out the number of paid employees residing in English regions who were paid below £12,500 from April 2019 to March 2020, from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employees</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>423,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>1,292,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>959,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>881,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>1,050,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>1,128,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>1,777,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>1,639,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>1,038,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The table below sets out the number of paid employees in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from April 2018 to March 2019 who were paid below £11,850, from HMRC’s PAYE RTI data.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Employees</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>9,900,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>893,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>503,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>301,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Please note:</p><p> </p><p>(1) These figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand employees.</p><p> </p><p>(2) These figures are as accurate as reported through PAYE RTI. However, PAYE schemes not paying any of their employees above the NICs threshold are not obliged to report employees' earnings through RTI. Additionally, PAYE RTI does not include income from self-employment, or any other source of income. Therefore, some employees may be excluded from these estimates and other employees may be included but have total income from all sources above the personal allowance.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL10795 question first answered 11/12/2020 11:48:53 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann