Nicholas Soames – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2016-03-11.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what work his Department is undertaking on establishing the amount of income tax and national insurance that is paid by people who were non-UK nationals at the time of issue of their national insurance number; if his Department will undertake that analysis by nationality; and what plans his Department has to publish the outcome of such work.

Mr David Gauke

The Government is committed to providing data on active National Insurance numbers used by people from other EU countries.

HMRC is currently compiling this information and is working closely with the ONS, which is currently reconciling the four main sources of international migration data.

The data on active National Insurance numbers will be published as part of or alongside the ONS’ publication. It’s up to that independent statistics authority as to when they are ready to make the information public.