Rent a Room Scheme
(asked on 13th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) households and (b) individuals have (i) applied for and (ii) received rent-a-room relief in each year since 2010.
It is not possible to provide a complete account of the number of individuals claiming rent a room relief. Not all individuals who claim the relief have to report this to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) – those with gross rental income below the threshold of £4,250, and those who fill in the short Self Assessment return do not have to explicitly claim the relief.
The number of individuals who indicated they were claiming some amount of relief is shown in the table below.
Total number of individuals filling out the SA105 property pages of the main SA100 Self Assessment return indicating that they were claiming the relief | ||||
2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
44,000 | 45,000 | 47,000 | 50,000 | 52,000 |
It is not possible to provide this data on a household level.