Consultation outcome

Summary of changes to HMRC statistics publications

Updated 2 July 2025

The following table summarises plans for all the publications for which changes were proposed in HMRC’s consultation.

Publication	Changes to be made
1. Air Passenger Duty Bulletin	We will publish statistics 2 months in arrears instead of one month in arrears, and move the publication date to August.
2. Alcohol Bulletin	We will continue to publish statistics one month in arrears.
3. Annual savings statistics	We will publish more breakdowns of market value and income bands for ISAs in tables 9.7, 9.10, 9.11 and 9.12. We will explore publishing additional statistics on Lifetime ISA market values and types of investment depending on data quality.
4. Capital Gains Tax statistics	We will publish additional statistics on carried interest.
5. Charity tax relief statistics	We will explore different ways of presenting statistics for donors with no income, and donors whose donations exceed their income.
6. Child and Working Tax Credits statistics	We will discontinue our Child and Working Tax Credits statistics series. We will consolidate information from previous publications into a Tax Credits Overview publication.
7. Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information	We will change the geographic area classifications to International Territorial Levels and provide additional breakdowns including public/private ownership and further regional breakdowns.
8. Employee Share Scheme statistics	We plan to publish additional statistics on Share Incentive Plans.
9. Environmental Taxes Bulletin	We will publish statistics 2 months in arrears instead of one month in arrears.
10. HMRC tax receipts and National Insurance contributions for the UK	We will reduce the monthly historic time series to 10 years, discontinue publication of Covid support scheme expenditure and improve navigation to historic statistics in the National Archives.
11. Hydrocarbon Oils Bulletin	We will continue to publish statistics one month in arrears and reduce publication frequency to twice a year.
12. Inheritance Tax liabilities statistics	We will explore whether it is possible to publish further breakdowns of statistics in future publications.
13. Insurance Premium Tax Bulletin	We will publish statistics 2 months in arrears instead of one month in arrears.
14. Measuring tax gaps publication	We will continue to publish statistics on alcohol (tables 3.26 to 3.47) and tobacco (tables 3.48 to 3.61) showing market share, revenue and volume.
15. Numbers of taxpayers and registered traders statistics	We will expand the publication to include numbers of employed and self-employed individuals with National Insurance liabilities.
16. Personal Incomes statistics	We will expand tables 3.13, 3.14 and 3.15 to include statistics on marginal tax rates and expand table 3.14 to include selected income percentiles. We will discontinue publication of tables 3.16 and 3.17.
17. Private pension statistics	We will publish data in a machine-readable format from 2025 onwards and discontinue publication of table 8 from 2026 onwards.
18. Quarterly and Annual Stamp Duty Land Tax statistics	We will discontinue the quarterly statistics publication and expand the annual statistics publication to include statistics previously only published in the quarterly release. We will shorten the annually published time series to 2 years.
19. Scottish VAT Assignment statistics	We will reduce the content of the publication to include headline statistics only.
20. Soft Drinks Industry Levy	We will publish statistics 2 months in arrears instead of one month in arrears and move the publication date to January.
21. Tax relief statistics	We will release one publication a year, covering both structural and non-structural reliefs.
22. Tax-Free Childcare statistics	We will discontinue publication of table 3 in the quarterly statistics publications.
23. Tobacco Bulletin	We will continue to publish statistics one month in arrears and reduce publication frequency to twice a year.
24. UK Betting and Gaming statistics	We will publish statistics two months in arrears and reduce publication frequency to once a year.
25. UK payrolled employments by nationality, region, industry, age and sex	We will explore adding statistics on payrolled employees.
26. Value Added Tax (VAT) annual statistics	We will combine tables 3 and 4a into one table, add a sector level total to table 4b, combine tables 5 and 8, remove tables 10a and 10b and add total net home VAT liability to table 11.