Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many entities received relief from corporation tax on research and development credits in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
HMRC publishes reports on the number of companies claiming Corporation Tax relief on Research and Development. Information for the period 2015-16 can be found in Table RD1 here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/corporate-tax-research-and-development-tax-credit
Information for the period 2016-17 will be published in Autumn 2018 whilst information for 2017-18 will not be available until 2019.