Question follow-through · 20467
Sole Traders: Registration
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many sole traders (a) registered and (b) deregistered each day in 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many sole traders (a) registered and (b) deregistered each day in 2024.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
HMRC does not hold the data requested relating to people added to and removed from PAYE. The PAYE population is made up of around 35 million individuals, and precise numbers change frequently as customers take up their first PAYE employment or pension, st...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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