Question follow-through · 108073
Travel: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will (a) review and (b) update the Overseas Scale Rates during 2026.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will (a) review and (b) update the Overseas Scale Rates during 2026.
27 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2026
Answer published
Overseas Scale Rates are an administrative easement that employers can use to pay or reimburse accommodation and subsistence expenses incurred by employees who have to travel outside the UK without the need to check receipts. Where the rates do not cover ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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