Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2018 to Question 90331, what estimate he has made of how many RTI returns are (a) late, (b) missing, and (c) incorrect.

Further to previous answers I have given on this topic, HMRC currently believes that roughly 5-6% of RTI returns are late, and about 1% are missing. HMRC does not currently have an estimate for how many are incorrect. HMRC set up the Late, Missing and Incorrect initiative jointly with DWP on 1 November 2017 to investigate all these areas and find ways of improving them.

The work of the Late, Missing and Incorrect initiative will be monitored and HMRC expects to see a reduction in the proportions over time.