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Speech in General Committees - Thu 23 Mar 2017
Draft Enactment of Extra-Statutory Concessions Order 2017

"It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms Buck. I thank the Minister for outlining the detail of the order. The Opposition will not prolong the sitting, particularly given the business happening in the House today, so I will simply say that we have listened to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 04 Nov 2016
Outsourcing and Tax Credits

"May I press the Minister once more on the financial issue? He talked about the HMRC compensation scheme. Will he tell us whether the payments under that scheme will be recovered from Concentrix?..."
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Written Question
Self-employed: Manchester Withington
Monday 6th June 2016

Asked by: Jeff Smith (Labour - Manchester Withington)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were registered with HM Revenue and Customs as self-employed (a) wholly and (b) partly for the purposes of tax and National Insurance in Manchester, Withington constituency in each of the last 24 months.

Answered by David Gauke

The latest available data for the numbers of individual taxpayers with self-employment income, by constituency level, is for 2013-14. There were estimated to be 4,000 individuals with self-employment income in Manchester, Withington constituency out of 40,000 with income from any source.

These estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes and are taken from table 3.15 of the HMRC Personal Income statistics publication.

No information on the purpose for individuals registering for Self Assessment is collected.