Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commission an independent review into the loan charge.

The Loan Charge was introduced to ensure that people who had not had tax deducted from their incomes paid their fair share.

The Government has already had an independent review. In 2019 Lord Morse led an independent review of the Loan Charge and its implementation. Lord Morse had full discretion over how the review was run, whom he consulted, and the recommendations made. The Government accepted 19 of his 20 recommendations, which benefited more than 30,000 people, including around 9,500 who were removed from the scope of the Loan Charge entirely.

As well as recommending changes to the policy, Lord Morse was clear that the Loan Charge was necessary, in the public interest and should remain in force.