Helen Whately MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Child Benefit: Foreign NationalsTreasuryTabled 27 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 108723More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what is the total amount of Child Benefit paid to non-UK nationals since July 2024, broken down by month; and what proportion of that amount was paid for children who don’t reside in the UK.
Answer: HMRC no longer produce a breakdown of Child benefit claimed by nationality.This release was discontinued following user consultation.The latest publication was in August 2022. Income Tax, National Insurance contributions, Tax Credits and Child Benefit Sta...
Answered 4 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99213More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on overall hours withdrawn by employees.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99212More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on hours worked by people near tax cliff edges.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99211More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice cap policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on employee hours worked in (a) the private sector and (b) the public sector.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99210More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on pensions and hours worked by (a) sex, (b) age and (c) NUTS region.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99209More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on individual pension savings.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordInsurance Premium TaxTreasuryTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97808More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much insurance premium tax was collected from each type of insurance product in the latest year for which data is available.
Answer: HMRC publishes annual statistics on IPT receipts and liabilities within the publication titled “Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) Bulletin” which can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/insurance-premium-tax-ipt-bulletin How...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: TaxationTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96270More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, wow many employees in the United Kingdom take part in a salary sacrifice scheme in the (a) public and (b) private sectors.
Answer: Salary sacrifice arrangement can cover multiple non-cash benefits, including cars, pensions, bicycles and workplace nurseries. HMRC does not hold administrative data on the number of employers offering and employees using salary sacrifice schemes. However...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96269More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of recent changes to salary sacrifice arrangements on employees’ pension savings.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMotability: Insurance Premium TaxTreasuryTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81346More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will ask HMRC to release a separate estimate of the cost of Motability’s Insurance Premium Tax exemption.
Answer: HMRC publishes estimates of the costs of tax reliefs in its annual Non-structural tax relief statistics publication. The last publication on 5 December 2024 showed an estimate and forecast for the financial years 2023-24 and 2024-25 of £1,210m for the rel...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMotability: VATTreasuryTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81345More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there have been any changes to the methodology HMRC use to estimate the cost of Motability’s VAT reliefs since 2019-20.
Answer: HMRC publishes estimates of the costs of tax reliefs in its annual Non-structural tax relief statistics publication. The last publication on 5 December 2024 showed an estimate and forecast for the financial years 2023-24 and 2024-25 of £1,210m for the rel...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMotability: VATTreasuryTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81344More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will publish the methodology and assumptions behind HMRC’s 2024 forecast that Motability’s VAT reliefs will have cost £1.21 billion in 2024-25.
Answer: HMRC publishes estimates of the costs of tax reliefs in its annual Non-structural tax relief statistics publication. The last publication on 5 December 2024 showed an estimate and forecast for the financial years 2023-24 and 2024-25 of £1,210m for the rel...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMotability: VATTreasuryTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81343More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will release the methodology and assumptions behind HMRC’s estimate that Motability’s VAT reliefs cost £1.21 billion in 2023-24.
Answer: HMRC publishes estimates of the costs of tax reliefs in its annual Non-structural tax relief statistics publication. The last publication on 5 December 2024 showed an estimate and forecast for the financial years 2023-24 and 2024-25 of £1,210m for the rel...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMotability: Insurance Premium Tax and VATTreasuryTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81342More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the value for money of Motability’s VAT and Insurance Premium Tax reliefs.
Answer: The Government keeps all taxes under review, and the Chancellor makes decisions on tax policy at fiscal events in the context of the overall public finances.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: Young PeopleTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78366More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her speech to the Labour Party Conference of 29 September 2025, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who will be supported under the Youth Jobs Guarantee.
Answer: In September, the Chancellor announced that the government will offer a guaranteed job to all young people on Universal Credit, who are unemployed for over 18 months. This will guarantee an opportunity for young people to gain essential skills and experie...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: Young PeopleTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78365More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her speech to the Labour Party Conference of 29 September 2025, what estimate her Department has made of the number of placements that will be available under the Youth Jobs Guarantee.
Answer: In September, the Chancellor announced that the government will offer a guaranteed job to all young people on Universal Credit, who are unemployed for over 18 months. This will guarantee an opportunity for young people to gain essential skills and experie...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: Young PeopleTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78364More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her speech to the Labour Party Conference of 29 September 2025, what estimate her Department has made of the average cost of a Youth Jobs Guarantee placement.
Answer: In September, the Chancellor announced that the government will offer a guaranteed job to all young people on Universal Credit, who are unemployed for over 18 months. This will guarantee an opportunity for young people to gain essential skills and experie...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: Young PeopleTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78363More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her speech to the Labour Party Conference of 29 September 2025, whether placements available through the Youth Jobs Guarantee will be in the (a) public, (b) private and (c) voluntary sectors.
Answer: In September, the Chancellor announced that the government will offer a guaranteed job to all young people on Universal Credit, who are unemployed for over 18 months. This will guarantee an opportunity for young people to gain essential skills and experie...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: Young PeopleTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78362More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her speech to the Labour Party Conference of 29 September 2025, whether the cost of the placements through the Youth Jobs Guarantee will be funded by the public purse.
Answer: In September, the Chancellor announced that the government will offer a guaranteed job to all young people on Universal Credit, who are unemployed for over 18 months. This will guarantee an opportunity for young people to gain essential skills and experie...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: Young PeopleTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78361More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her speech to the Labour Party Conference of 29 September 2025, which employers have agreed to offer placements as part of the Youth Jobs Guarantee.
Answer: In September, the Chancellor announced that the government will offer a guaranteed job to all young people on Universal Credit, who are unemployed for over 18 months. This will guarantee an opportunity for young people to gain essential skills and experie...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: Young PeopleTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78360More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her speech to the Labour Party Conference of 29 September 2025, with which employers her Department held discussions on the Youth Jobs Guarantee.
Answer: In September, the Chancellor announced that the government will offer a guaranteed job to all young people on Universal Credit, who are unemployed for over 18 months. This will guarantee an opportunity for young people to gain essential skills and experie...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel PaymentTreasuryTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69971More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department plans to take to (a) recruit and (b) reallocate staff to deliver the Winter Fuel Payment in 2025-26.
Answer: The Government announced in June 2025 that the Winter Fuel Payment will be made universal in England and Wales from winter 2025. Subsequently, the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive have confirmed that they will mirror the approach for Eng...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel PaymentTreasuryTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69970More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff will be required to administer the Winter Fuel Payment in 2025-26.
Answer: The Government announced in June 2025 that the Winter Fuel Payment will be made universal in England and Wales from winter 2025. Subsequently, the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive have confirmed that they will mirror the approach for Eng...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel PaymentTreasuryTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69969More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the cost of administering Winter Fuel Payment for pensioners with an income of more than £35,000.
Answer: The Government announced in June 2025 that the Winter Fuel Payment will be made universal in England and Wales from winter 2025. Subsequently, the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive have confirmed that they will mirror the approach for Eng...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel PaymentTreasuryTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69968More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) funding and (b) other resources her Department plans to provide to support the process of recouping the Winter Fuel Payment from pensioners with an income of more than £35,000.
Answer: The Government announced in June 2025 that the Winter Fuel Payment will be made universal in England and Wales from winter 2025. Subsequently, the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive have confirmed that they will mirror the approach for Eng...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
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