Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Northern Ireland currently in employment will not be paying Income Tax from April 2016.

An estimate of the number of taxpayers in each year in Northern Ireland is published in the HMRC National Statistics publications Income Tax Liabilities Statistics, table 2.2 (page 5) which is available from the following address:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/429136/Table_2.2.pdf

These estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI) outturn data up to 2012-13, and then projected to 2015-16 in line with the Office for Budget Responsibility's March 2015 economic and fiscal outlook.

The projected number of taxpayer in Northern Ireland in 2016-17 and therefore the change from the 2015-16 projection are not currently available but are due to be published in May 2016.