Visual Impairment: Tax Allowances

(asked on 5th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people claimed the Blind Person's Allowance in the 2023-24 financial year.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 10th June 2025

The most recent estimates of the number of individuals claiming the Blind Person’s Allowance are published as part of HMRC’s statistics publication ‘Tax Reliefs Statistics’ within the file ‘Estimated cost of non-structural tax reliefs (December 2024)’ under the IT tab:

Non-structural tax reliefs - GOV.UK

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6749e1adebabe47136b3a295/non_structural_cost_estimates_december_2024.ods

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