Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January to Question 90331, that the Late, Missing and Incorrect joint initiative between his Department and Department for Work and Pensions on PAYE Real Time Information believes that around 5% or 6% of RTI returns are late, missing or incorrect, by when he expects to reduce those proportions; and if he will make a statement.

Further to previous answers I have given on this topic, HMRC currently believes that roughly 5-6% of RTI returns are late, and about 1% are missing. HMRC does not currently have an estimate for how many are incorrect. HMRC set up the Late, Missing and Incorrect initiative jointly with DWP on 1 November 2017 to investigate all these areas and find ways of improving them.

The work of the Late, Missing and Incorrect initiative will be monitored and HMRC expects to see a reduction in the proportions over time.