Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to the the publication entitled Areas of research interest, updated 27 November 2025, when will (a) her Department, (b) HMRC and (c) the Valuation Office Agency publish their 2025 areas of research interests.

The Areas of Research Interest (ARI) documents you refer to, published in November 2024, set out a range of long-term and enduring research questions across the remit of HMT, HMRC and the Valuation Office Agency. The Government’s objectives, including relentlessly pursuing growth and cutting the cost of living, have not changed so it does not plan to update the documents regularly.

The ARIs sit alongside other important analytical publications and documents, including the departments’ evaluation strategy and their research and statistics. This is just one part of the Government’s broader work engaging with external research partners.