Question follow-through · 62677
Gift Aid
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average processing time was for Gift Aid claims in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 4 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average processing time was for Gift Aid claims in each of the last five years.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jul 2025
Answer published
The average processing times for Gift Aid claims over the last five tax years are below: Tax YearAverage Working Days to Pay06/04/2024to05/04/20253.1606/04/2023to05/04/20243.2406/04/2022to05/04/20232.8406/04/2021to05/04/20223.4906/04/2020to05/04/20214.08 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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