Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much VAT revenue was raised from the sale of petrol and diesel in the last financial year for which data is available.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

HM Revenue and Customs does not hold information on VAT revenue from specific products or services, including VAT on petrol and diesel.

This is because businesses are not required to provide figures at a product level within their VAT returns, as this would impose an excessive administrative burden.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of total Air Passenger Duty receipts was attributable to (a) domestic and short-haul flights and (b) long-haul flights in the most recent financial year for which data is available.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

Air Passenger Duty (APD) applies to airlines, rather than individual passengers, and is the principal tax on the aviation sector. APD is charged on passengers travelling on aircraft departing from airports in the UK, with the rate of duty determined by the distance to a passenger’s final destination and the class of travel. From April 2023, APD operates across four destination bands:

• Domestic, covering flights within England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Band A, where the distance from London to the country’s capital is up to 2,000 miles
• Band B, where the distance is between 2,001 miles and 5,500 miles, and
• Band C, where the distance is over 5,500 miles.

Airline operators declare the number of chargeable passengers by destination band and by rate. However, APD receipts are not attributable to distance travelled, and therefore this is not information that HMRC collects.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of total Air Passenger Duty receipts were attributable to passengers travelling with children under 16 in the most recent financial year for which data is available.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

Air Passenger Duty (APD) applies to airlines, not individual passengers, and is the principal tax on the aviation sector.

HMRC does not collect information on passenger ages or whether passengers are travelling with children. Air Passenger Duty receipts are therefore not broken down in this way, and no estimate can be made of the proportion attributable to passengers travelling with children under 16.

Airline operators declare the number of chargeable passengers by destination band and by rate. They do not break down chargeable passengers by age or who passengers are travelling with, and therefore this is not information that HMRC collects.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Interest rate cap introduced to protect Plan 2 borrowers, published on 7 April 2026, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of capping interest on Plan 2 and 3 student loans at 6%.

Answered by Josh MacAlister - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The government is capping maximum interest rates on Plan 2 and Plan 3 (postgraduate) student loans at 6%, instead of the Retail Prices Index (RPI) plus 3%, for the 2026/27 academic year.

This short-term protective measure will apply from the 1 September 2026 to the 31 August 2027 and removes the risk of a temporary increase in inflation causing loan balances to compound at an unsustainable rate.

Student loan interest rates are ordinarily set for each academic year by reference to the RPI value for the year to the preceding March. On that basis, interest rates for the 2026/27 academic year would normally be determined using the RPI figure for March 2026, due to be published on 22 April 2026.

The impact of the interest rate cap on the public purse will depend on the March RPI value.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what were tax receipts from Carbon Price Support in each of the last five financial years for which data is available.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

Carbon Price Support (CPS) tax receipts can be found in the Environmental Taxes Bulletin: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/environmental-taxes-bulletin.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Written Statement of 16 April 2026 on Carbon Price Support, HCWS1519, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to tax revenues of abolishing Carbon Price Support in each financial year for which estimates are available; and what steps her Department is taking to fund this policy change.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

As the grid continues to decarbonise, the Carbon Price Support (CPS) tax base will become smaller and CPS revenue is forecast to significantly decline.

Final costings will be confirmed at a fiscal event in the usual way. The Chancellor will set out details on how this, and any other decisions, are funded such that the fiscal rules are met at the Budget in the usual way.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what number of universal credit households in the most recent quarter for which data is available were subject to a deduction; and what proportion of these households were subject to the maximum percentage reduction of 15%.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The requested information can be found in the published Universal Credit deductions statistics, December 2024 to November 2025, supplementary data Table1 and Table2, available here: Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 8 January 2026 - GOV.UK.

The next release of these statistics is on Tuesday 12 May 2026, Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 12 February 2026 - Official statistics announcement - GOV.UK

Further release dates are published here: universal credit - Research and statistics - GOV.UK