Married People: Tax Allowances

(asked on 2nd January 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of households who will have (a) Married Couple’s Allowance and (b) marriage allowance reduced as a result of freezing of income tax thresholds.


Answered by
Dan Tomlinson Portrait
Dan Tomlinson
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 12th January 2026

HMRC does not produce household-level analysis for either the Marriage Allowance or the Married Couple’s Allowance.

Data on the number of Marriage Allowance claimants up to 2022-23 can be found here:

Non-structural tax reliefs - GOV.UK

Published estimates of the number of Married Couple’s Allowance claimants up to 2024-25 can be found here:

Structural tax reliefs - GOV.UK

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