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VAT

Answer

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

Please see the letter attached from the Permanent Secretary for the Office for National Statistics.

Lord Wigley

House of Commons

London

SW1A 0PW

18 June 2026

Dear Lord Wigley,

As Permanent Secretary of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I am responding to your

Parliamentary Question asking what the latest estimates of annual revenue to HM Treasury

from Value Added Tax (VAT) collected in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

are (HL847).

Certain public sector bodies can recover VAT incurred on selected purchases and

acquisitions made to support their non-business activities. The figures presented below in

Table 1 represent total VAT receipts, i.e. before any recoveries.

Table 1: Value Added Tax receipts for the financial year ending 31 March 2025

£ millions	UK	England	Wales	Scotland	Northern Ireland
Revenue	202,726	170,522	9,607	16,647	5,950
% 100		84.1	4.7	8.2	2.9

Source: Country and regional public sector finances[1], Office for National Statistics

Figures are estimates created by allocating total UK VAT revenue to countries. We allocate revenue to industry sectors using information from His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC's) VAT theoretical tax liability model and apportion revenue from these sectors to countries of the UK using relevant demographic and expenditure Patterns.

Yours sincerely,

Darren Tierney

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/countryandregionalpublicsectorfinances

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL847

Session

2026-27

Subjects

Finance VAT

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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