Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received income tax relief for venture capital trusts in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
The number of people claiming income tax relief on investments in Venture Capital Trusts (VCT) in 2014-15 was 12,920. HM Revenue and Customs has not yet published statistics for the number of claims in 2015-16; these will be published by the end of 2017, as part of the regular schedule of VCT statistics.