Question follow-through · 25243
VAT: Repayments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will release figures on the average processing times for VAT repayment claims from newly registered businesses.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will release figures on the average processing times for VAT repayment claims from newly registered businesses.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2026
Answer published
Identifying which VAT registrations should be considered new, isolating them from those which are not, and reporting the associated average repayment processing times would require significant manual resource to extract and reconcile data from multiple sy...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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