Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May 2020 to Question 43961 on Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, how many submissions of the iForm referred to in that Answer have been made in each of the last five tax years; what estimate he has made of the number of submissions that will be made in the 2020-21 tax year; and how many submissions of that iForm had been received by 12 May 2020.

The total number of iForm submissions made to the tax fraud hotline on GOV.UK in each tax year, for the last 5 tax years (1 April to 31 March) were:

2019/20: 65,169

2018/19: 58,664

2017/18: 57,631

2016/17: 49,686

2015/16: 40,044

6,613 iForm submissions were made between 1 April to 12 May 2020. HM Revenue and Customs do not routinely produce estimates of the volume of expected allegations submitted through this reporting pathway.