Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 2617, how much funding his Department has allocated to the assessment of HM Revenue and Customs' consultation exercise, Making Tax Digital.

In Government, HMRC is responsible for running its consultation on Making Tax Digital (MTD). This Department and HMRC routinely work together closely on a number of tax issues affecting business and this work is factored in to our business planning. My Rt Hon Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury made a written Ministerial Statement to the House on 13 July (HCWS47), which included further information about the timetable for MTD:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-07-13/HCWS47/