Consultation on changes to HMRC statistics publications 2025
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HMRC recognises that it is important to engage with our statistical publication users regularly and to consider whether our publications remain of high value to them. Hence, we embarked on a consultation exercise to propose some changes to our large range of statistical publications. The public consultation on the proposed changes was published on 6 January 2025 and closed on 10 April 2025.
We actively approached known users of our statistics to encourage responses and ensure a wide range of views were received.
HMRC is grateful for the engagement of stakeholders in this consultation. We received 29 responses from a range of statistics users providing feedback across all 30 publications. Respondents included government departments, devolved administrations, academic and professional bodies, thinktanks, multinational corporations, and local government.
The consultation responses were carefully considered and our plans for many of the publications have either been altered in response to user comments or, where we received dissenting feedback, have been reversed. The majority of responses commented favourably on the proposed changes.
Approximately half of the confirmed changes will expand existing publications with additional breakdowns. Other changes will alter the frequency, change the publication date, cease or merge publications, or streamline the outputs.
This consultation response sets out the resultant changes we are making to our statistical publications. Detailed feedback and HMRC’s responses can be found in the attachments, together with a summary of the changes that will be made to HMRC’s statistics publications.
Original consultation
Consultation description
HMRC is committed to producing high value and good quality statistical publications that meet the needs of our users, while using our resource in the most effective ways. This consultation encourages our users to provide their views on changes we are considering to our suite of statistical publications. We need to understand how you use these statistics so that we can prioritise improvements to publications which are important to our users. We look forward to receiving your comments.
Please send your comments to statisticsenquiries@hmrc.gov.uk, making sure to be clear about which publications you are referring to. We will review all feedback we receive and publish a consultation response, setting out confirmed plans, in summer 2025.
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Added consultation outcome, including a summary of changes to HMRC statistics publications and our responses to publication-specific feedback.
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