Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of participants in the Employee Shareholder Status scheme in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK.
Details of the number of employees receiving Employee Shareholder Status shares in the tax year 2013 to 2014, the latest year for which data is available, are in Table 14.9 contained in the Capital Gains Tax Statistics published on Gov.uk - www.gov.uk/government/statistics/capital-gains-tax-statistics. Breakdown by geographical areas is not available.