Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans to change the (a) introductory date for and (b) rules on IR-35 off-payroll working as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

On 17 March 2020, the Government announced that the reform to the off-payroll working rules that would have applied for people contracting their services to large or medium sized organisations outside the public sector will be delayed for one year from 6 April 2020 until 6 April 2021.

The Government has legislated this measure in Finance Bill 2020 and will implement it in April 2021 in order to address the unfairness of non-compliance with the existing off-payroll working rules.