Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2014, Official Report, column 677W, on VAT, how many VAT431NB claims have been submitted in each of the (a) last eight years and (b) smallest time periods by which data is kept over the last eight years.

VAT 431NB New House Build Claims and VAT431C Conversion claims forms have only been in use in their current form since September 2009.

Data on these forms is kept on an annual calendar year basis.