Question follow-through · 102741
Tax Avoidance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Revenue and Customs has updated its assessment of the number of suicides linked to the loan charge since January 2023; and whether the Government plans to publish updated figures on a routine basis.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 5 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Revenue and Customs has updated its assessment of the number of suicides linked to the loan charge since January 2023; and whether the Government plans to publish updated figures on a routine basis.
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government promised to commission a new independent review of the loan charge and that is what it delivered. The purpose of the review was to bring the matter to a close for people who have not settled and paid their loan charge liabilities. The Gover...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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