Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse of tax relief on private pension contributions was in the last 12 months.
HM Revenue and Customs published the cost of tax reliefs on pensions in the table titled: ‘Cost of Registered Pension Scheme Tax Relief’, which can be found in the link below. The latest information held is for 2015-16, with 2016-17 data due to be published in February 2018:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/registered-pension-schemes-cost-of-tax-relief