Question follow-through · 107315
Income Tax: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria her Department uses when determining whether to uprate the Personal Allowance.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria her Department uses when determining whether to uprate the Personal Allowance.
22 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Personal Allowance is uprated in line with CPI by default. The previous Government took the decision to maintain the Personal Allowance at its current level from April 2021 until April 2028. The Government is asking everyone to contribute to maintain ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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