We continue to work closely with local authorities to improve housing outcomes for newly recognised refugees leaving asylum accommodation.

In March this year, the Home Office decided to set the notice period for all individuals granted leave exiting the asylum accommodation estate to 42 days, following an extensive 56-day pilot and evaluation. In reaching the decision, we considered a wide range of evidence, including key findings from the evaluation of the 56-day pilot. The full evaluation can be found on gov.uk: www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-the-initiatives-to-enhance-the-move-on-process/evaluation-of-the-initiatives-to-enhance-the-move-on-process.

It is important that individuals initiate plans to move on from asylum support as soon as they are served their asylum decision in order to maximise the time they have to make move on arrangements, regardless of when their eVisa (which replaced biometric residence permits in for newly recognised refugees leaving asylum accommodation in 2024) is issued. Support is available to all individuals through Migrant Help in order to do this, which includes advice on how to access Universal Credit, the labour market and where to get assistance with housing.

The Government set out the impacts, including administrative impacts, of specific policies in the Tax Impact and Info notes which are published alongside tax policy changes at each Budget.

The Chancellor takes decisions on tax at fiscal events and does not routinely comment on proposals.

The Government recognises the important role that employers play in providing young people with their first step into work. Businesses can therefore claim employer National Insurance contributions reliefs for employees under 21 and apprentices under 25, meaning no employer NICs are paid on their earnings up to £50,270.

HMRC published an evaluation of these measures in October 2023. It found that they reduce employment costs for employers and identified some evidence of a positive impact on youth employment, while noting that recruitment decisions are influenced by wider factors.

The Government has also announced £2.5 billion of investment in the Youth Guarantee and the Growth and Skills Levy over the next three years, supporting almost one million young people and helping to deliver up to 500,000 opportunities to earn or learn.

At £90,000, the UK has a higher VAT registration threshold than any EU country and the joint highest in the OECD. This means the majority of UK businesses are not in the VAT system at all.

The Office for National Statistics publishes monthly updates on public sector current receipts. Since its introduction in 2022 until July 2026, the Energy Profits Levy has raised £13.5bn on an accruals basis.

The Government’s new investment fiscal rule has supported a sustained increase in investment while maintaining sound public finances. This change has enabled over £120 billion of additional capital investment over the Parliament compared with previous plans. At Spending Review 2025, the Government also set departmental budgets for capital investment to 2029-30, giving departments greater certainty to plan effectively, secure value for money and deliver long-term projects and public services successfully.

The Modern Industrial Strategy is the Government’s long-term framework to increase business investment, unlock productivity growth, support high-quality jobs and drive economic growth across the UK.

The 2025 Spending Review allocated multiyear resource and capital budgets to align with the Government’s growth priorities. For instance, the Industrial Strategy is underpinned by billions of public investment in innovation and access to finance, including public R&D funding rising to £22.6bn by 2029-30, an increase in British Business Bank capacity to £25.6bn, targeted support for priority sectors including advanced manufacturing with £4bn and £2.3bn provided over ten years for Drive 35 and the Aerospace Technology Institute, respectively, and a £400m UK Defence Innovation programme.

The government updated the Charter for Budget Responsibility in 2024 to require that where capital investment, or other new policies, may have material impacts beyond the forecast horizon, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) should, where appropriate and subject to receiving sufficient information from the Treasury to do so, analyse and report on these at the relevant forecast. The OBR estimates that the combined supply-side effects of policy announced across the Parliament will raise the level of GDP by over 0.6% after 10 years.

The government has taken a long-term approach to capital investment in the 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy, published in 2025. The Strategy set out the UK government’s long-term plan to provide greater certainty for infrastructure investment to support growth, resilience and high-quality public services.

The Government’s vision for devolution in England was set out in the joint cabinet statement, ‘Rewiring the state’ published in July. This committed to greater retention of business rates revenue for both strategic authorities and local councils. The long-term certainty of funding via taxation will provide more flexibility and enable greater investment to fund interventions that will deliver a return. The Government will consider how these growth incentives can be balanced with the need for fairness between places, recognising that there will be different starting points across the country.

HMRC’s compliance approach focuses on preventing non-compliance, promoting good compliance and responding to those who choose not to pay what they legally owe, including wealthy individuals. HMRC is increasing activity to tackle offshore tax evasion, including that carried out by the wealthy. This includes recruiting and redeploying 400 additional staff by 2030 to tackle wealthy offshore non-compliance.

As part of that commitment, in 2025-2026 HMRC recruited and redeployed over 200 staff across compliance teams to manage the risk. That includes 20 external experts with specific commercial or sectoral knowledge. The majority of these have been placed in the Complex Cross Tax and Offshore team (CCTO). The team takes a holistic view of wealthy individuals and their structures, targeting cross-tax risks among customers with the highest wealth, risk and complexity.

HMRC has also allocated a Customer Compliance Manager (CCM) to every billionaire with a UK tax footprint over the summer. CCMs are allocated to customers according to wealth, complexity and risk.

For more information, visit HMRC Transformation Roadmap: update 2026 - GOV.UK. HMRC will also publish its plan for tackling wealthy non-compliance by the end of 2026.

The government sets out the impacts of specific policies in the Tax Impact and Information Notes which are published alongside tax policy changes at each Budget.

The TIIN for the exempt amount changes is set out here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-the-annual-exempt-amount-for-capital-gains-tax

The National Wealth Fund (NWF) currently has £27.8bn of financial capacity and is focused on deploying this existing capitalisation.

There are no current plans to allow the National Wealth Fund to issue independent debt instruments. Once the NWF exhausts its existing financial capacity, HM Treasury will assess the most value-for-money approach for further capitalising the NWF.

The Public Works Loan Board lending facility provides cost-effective lending to local authorities to support local investment and service delivery. Locally-led development corporations cannot directly access lending from the PWLB though local authorities may on-lend to them. Locally-led development corporations must ensure that borrowing is prudent, affordable and sustainable, including that interest costs can be managed, under the oversight of the local authority.

The Government is providing the biggest boost to social and affordable housing investment in a generation through a £39 billion successor to the Social and Affordable Homes Programme. On 25 August, the Government confirmed initial allocations of £9.58 billion to support the delivery of more than 73,000 social and affordable homes across England, with nearly two-thirds of those homes for Social Rent.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’ and in the ‘Migration transparency data’.

Data on asylum claims awaiting an initial decision at the end of each quarter is published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘Asylum claims and initial decisions datasets’.

Data on the number of asylum caseworking staff per month from 2020 onwards is published in table ASY_05(M) of the ‘Immigration and Protection data’.

The Government recognises that childcare is a significant expense for many families, and we remain committed to ensuring that parents can access affordable, high‑quality provision that supports them to work and provide for their children.

At Autumn Budget 2025, the Government announced that the Department for Education will lead a review of childcare provision. The aim of this review is to simplify the system for both providers and families, making it easier to access support and enhancing the overall impact of the Government’s childcare offer.

The Government offers four tax-advantaged employee share schemes. These support business growth by aligning employee and shareholder interests, incentivising employee productivity and supporting recruitment and retention.

HMRC publishes annual statistics on the uptake and use of tax-advantaged employee share schemes, including the Company Share Option Plan (CSOP) scheme.

In addition, qualitative research into three of the tax-advantaged share schemes was published in 2023, which included consideration of CSOP uptake with different sectors. This is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/share-schemes-evaluation

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is the Government's official forecaster responsible for assessing the UK economic and fiscal outlook.

In producing their economic and fiscal forecasts they consider migration levels amongst a wide range of factors.

The Government is committed to supporting the growth of credit unions, recognising the important role they play in promoting financial inclusion, providing affordable credit and supporting regional economic growth.

To support this, the Government has committed to increasing the cap on the maximum potential size of credit unions with a locality based common bond from 3 million to 10 million people. This change will be delivered through secondary legislation, alongside further changes being made through the Financial Services and Markets Bill to modernise the common bond framework and support credit union growth.