Question follow-through · 47915
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to take steps to help (a) improve transparency within the umbrella company sector and (b) ensure workers are not subject to (i) excessive fees and (ii) improper tax arrangements.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to take steps to help (a) improve transparency within the umbrella company sector and (b) ensure workers are not subject to (i) excessive fees and (ii) improper tax arrangements.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to closing the tax gap and making the tax system fairer by ensuring temporary workers are protected from large, unexpected tax bills caused by unscrupulous behaviour from non-compliant umbrella companies. That is why the Chance...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Off-payroll Working: Income Tax and National Insurance
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that umbrella companies correctly (a) deduct and (b) remit (i) Income Tax and (ii) National Insurance contributions on behalf of temporary workers.
Off-payroll Working: Conditions of Employment
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that umbrella companies operating in the UK temporary labour market are adequately transparent about (a) workers' pay, (b) wage deductions and (c) statutory entitle
Inheritance Tax: Divorced People
8 May 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an additional allowance for divorced persons before inheritance tax is payable by their next of kin.
Inheritance Tax
14 May 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to maintain the current residence nil rate inheritance tax band of £175,000.
Employment Agencies
14 May 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with recruitment agencies on compliance with their new responsibilities in relation to umbrella company legislation by April 2026.
Employment Agencies: Construction and Health Services
2 Jun 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions her Department has had on the potential impact of its forthcoming legislation on umbrella companies which engage temporary staff with the (a) NHS, (b) construction sector and (c) healthcare sector.
Council Tax: Valuation
2 Jun 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Council Tax banding appeals process conducted by the Valuation Office Agency.
Help to Buy Scheme: Individual Savings Accounts
14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has considered increasing the cap on house prices from £250,000 for Help to Buy ISAs outside of London, in the context of increases in house prices nationally.
Childcare
28 Oct 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the £100,000 eligibility threshold for tax free childcare on families affected by that provision.
Beer and Public Houses: Business Rates
2 Jan 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of support for pubs and breweries in light of the 40% business rates relief reducing in the same period as the VOA rate revaluation.
Valuation Office Agency: Disclosure of Information
4 Feb 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure transparency in the work of the VOA.
Valuation Office Agency: Disclosure of Information
4 Feb 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking maximise the public sharing of evidence on which assertions by the VOA are made; and how the VOA's duty to taxpayer confidentiality will be used when responding to queries.