Question follow-through · 73023
Fringe Benefits: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data her Department holds on (a) employer uptake of the Trivial Benefit Allowance and (b) the frequency of its use in employee reward schemes.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data her Department holds on (a) employer uptake of the Trivial Benefit Allowance and (b) the frequency of its use in employee reward schemes.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2025
Answer published
The requested data is not available. There is no tax paid on employee benefits covered by the Trivial Benefit Allowance and as such they are not required to be reported to HMRC.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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