Question follow-through · 85667
Tax Collection
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the value of uncollected tax in each of the last five financial years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an estimate of the value of uncollected tax in each of the last five financial years.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) estimates the size of the tax gap, which is the difference between the amount of tax that should, in theory, be paid to HMRC, and what is actually paid. The tax gap statistics and details of the estimate methodologies are pub...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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