Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the contribution to the public purse of the introduction of overseas scale rates for employee travel expenses in each year from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

The Government’s estimates of the effect of the introduction of overseas scale rates for employee travel expenses is set out in the policy paper “Abolition of receipt checking for benchmark scale rates and changes to overseas scale rates”.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/abolition-of-receipt-checking-for-benchmark-scale-rates-and-changes-to-overseas-scale-rates/abolition-of-receipt-checking-for-benchmark-scale-rates-and-changes-to-overseas-scale-rates

Overseas scale rates have been in HMRC guidance since 2008, and are now being put on a statutory basis. The change described in the policy paper is not expected to have any significant economic impacts and the Exchequer impact from legislating overseas scale rates is estimated to be negligible.