Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many notices of intention to strike a company from the Register of Companies HMRC raised an objection to in the tax years (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14, (c) 2014-15, (d) 2015-16 and (e) 2016-17.

The number of notices of intention to strike a company from the Register of Companies to which HMRC raised an objection in the relevant years was:

* the information needed to obtain the full figure for 2014/15 is not held centrally by HMRC as the process of making the objection changed during the year.

These figures differ from those provided by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on PQ UIN 126614 for a number of reasons. These include timing differences in the recognition of objections from HMRC, situations where the application to strike off has been abandoned by the time HMRC’s objection is processed and cases where HMRC are required to issue multiple objections in respect of the same winding up due the length of time involved.