PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health: Screening (2 November 2022)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the level of tax revenues that have been received from the benefit-in-kind tax applied to private health screenings for employees in each of the last 10 years.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

HMRC publishes information on taxable benefits in kind here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/taxable-benefits-in-kind-and-expenses-payments-statistics

Table 4.5 of the 2019 publication provides the number of recipients, taxable value and Income Tax and National Insurance liability of private medical and dental benefits in kind, covering tax year 2009 to 2010 to tax year 2017 to 2018. This publication can be found in the National Archives here: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20191203084326/https:/www.gov.uk/government/statistics/number-of-recipients-and-amounts-of-taxable-benefits-by-type-of-benefit

In 2020 the scope of HMRC’s taxable benefits in kind statistics was restricted to company cars (and company car fuel) only. This decision was made because the increased uptake of payrolling had substantially reduced the completeness of the data on which statistics for other benefits were based.

Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
9 November 2022