Health Professions: Training
(asked on 18th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many NHS trainees under the Widening Access fund received a refund for their overpaid (a) national insurance and (b) income tax contributions in each of the last six years.
This question was answered on 26th July 2016
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does not keep records of the average time taken to process such refunds. HMRC only holds records for the number of NHS trainees receiving refunds under the widening access scheme from April 2013. A total of 8209 refunds have been processed since then, as follows:
2013/14 | 252 |
2014/15 | 1115 |
2015/16 | 4100 |
2016/17 | 2742 |