Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the time taken for inheritance tax applications to be processed.

HMRC regularly monitors and assesses the processing times for inheritance tax and all other tax applications as part of its business operation, enabling the department to address any bottlenecks or delays and to improve performance, which may include reallocating resources. Through these measures, HMRC aims to enhance efficiency and deliver against its agreed service standard of 80 per cent with 15 working days.

Throughout 2022-2023 the 15 working day turnaround numbers for Inheritance Tax has been consistently above 80 per cent.

HMRC publishes monthly and quarterly performance data on GOV.UK

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-monthly-performance-reports

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-quarterly-performance-updates