Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the average annual amount of income tax expressed as a proportion of total income paid by an individual in Dover constituency in each year between 2009-10 to 2017-18.

Increases to the personal allowance between 2010-11 and 2015-16 are estimated to have reduced the income tax liability of 28 million individuals in the UK in 2015-16. This includes taking 4 million of the lowest paid out of income tax altogether. The corresponding figures for the South East, which includes Dover constituency, are 4 million and 532,000 respectively.

Estimates for the equivalent figures at constituency level are not sufficiently reliable.

Further increases, since 2015-16 to the personal allowance (up to £12,500 in 2019-20) and higher rate threshold (up to £50,000 in 2019-20) are expected to cut tax for 32 million individuals in 2019-20 compared with 2015-16. This includes taking 1.7 million of the lowest paid out of income tax altogether. The corresponding figures for the South East, which includes Dover constituency, are 4.8 million and 234,000 respectively.

Estimates of the average amount of Income Tax as a proportion of Income for taxpayers in the parliamentary constituency of Dover between the tax years 2009-10 and 2015-16 are shown in the table below. Tax year 2015-16 is currently the latest year available.

These estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes.