Question follow-through · 38510
Travel: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to review the overseas scale rates.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to review the overseas scale rates.
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
As with all taxes and allowances, the Government keeps flat rates expenses, including Overseas Scale Rates, under review. Any decisions on future changes in this area will be taken in the context of the wider public finances.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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