Alec Shelbrooke MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
State Retirement Pensions: Income TaxTreasuryTabled 25 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 123590More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2026 to Question 115363, if she will provide the underlying data used to calculate the impact of the Personal Allowance freeze on those of state pension age.
Answer: Information on the methodology used to estimate the impacts of maintaining the personal income tax thresholds can be found in HM Treasury’s Policy Costing paper. Budget_2025-Policy_Costings.pdf The Chancellor has said that those whose only income is the b...
Answered 13 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPensioners: Income TaxTreasuryTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115363More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the cumulative number of pensioners who will be liable for income tax between 2026 and 2031 as a result of the the Personal Allowance threshold being frozen; and what assessment she has
Answer: The number of people forecast to pay tax by marginal rate can be found in Table 3.19 in the OBR’s November 2025 Economic and fiscal outlook – detailed forecast tables: receipts, linked below: https://obr.uk/download/november-2025-economic-and-fiscal-outlo...
Answered 4 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordPlastic Packaging TaxTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100304More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will review the scope of the Plastics Packaging Tax to exempt EN 13432–certified compostable materials; and what assessment has been made of the potential impact of including compostable materials within the
Answer: The Government keeps all taxes under review as part of the policymaking process. The Plastic Packaging Tax provides a price incentive for businesses to use recycled plastic in the manufacture of plastic packaging.
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxation: Electronic GovernmentTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70397More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the cost of (a) quarterly tax returns and (b) mandatory use of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax software to small and medium enterprises.
Answer: Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax quarterly updates are not the same as tax returns. They are simple, unadjusted summaries of income and expenditure, populated automatically through software and easily submitted. The latest published assessment of M...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
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