Question follow-through · 30903
Income Tax: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Personal Allowance threshold from £12,570.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Personal Allowance threshold from £12,570.
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
The previous Government made the decision to freeze the income tax Personal Allowance at its current level of £12,570 until April 2028. At our first Budget, we decided not to extend the freeze on personal tax thresholds meaning they will rise with inflati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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