Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received tax relief on their pension contributions at the (a) 20% and (b) 40% rate in the latest period for which data is available.

Information on estimates of Income Tax relief on pension contributions can be found online in Table 6 of the Private Pension Statistics publication. Estimates of the total value of Income Tax and National Insurance contribution relief, broken down by the rate at which the contributions were relieved, can be found in Tables 6.1 and 6.2 of the publication respectively.