Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of money lost to fraud and error by his Department in each of the last three financial years.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) publish annual statistical estimates of the size of the tax gap and money lost to fraud and error.

The latest estimates of the tax gap were published in Measuring tax gaps 2023 edition: tax gap estimates for 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The latest error and fraud estimates for the Corporation Tax Research and Development relief schemes and for Child Benefit were published in HMRC annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The latest published Tax Credits Error and Fraud statistics were published in Child and Working Tax Credits error and fraud statistics 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).