Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of lost (a) income tax and (b) national insurance contributions revenue to the Exchequer as a result of false self-employment.

The House of Commons Library published a briefing paper, Self-employment in the construction industry on 23 May 2016. The paper identifies that employment intermediaries facilitating false self-employment is the main source of bogus self-employment. HM Revenue and Customs estimated this had resulted in 200,000 people wrongly designated. It has not provided an estimate of the amount of tax and national insurance lost as a result of false self-employment.