Question follow-through · 123052
Travel: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will conduct a review of overseas scale rates for employees travelling outside the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will conduct a review of overseas scale rates for employees travelling outside the UK.
25 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2026
Answer published
Where employers reimburse allowable travel expenses, tax relief is available provided the expenses are wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred for work purposes. Ordinarily, employers must hold evidence of the employee’s actual expenditure. However, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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