Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claims were made under the Enterprise Investment Scheme in 2018, and what the average income was of the claimants.

HMRC publishes annual reports on the number of investors claiming tax relief under the Enterprise Investment Scheme. Information for the tax year 2016-17 can be found in Table 8.5 here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/enterprise-investment-scheme-seed-enterprise-investment-scheme-and-social-investment-tax-relief-statistics-may-2018

Information for the tax year 2017-18 will be published in May 2019. Information for the tax year 2018-19 will not be available until 2020.

Information about the average income of the claimants is only available at disproportionate cost.