Written Question·Treasury·UIN 100841

Inheritance Tax

Tabled: 17 December 2025

Answered: 8 January 2026

Question

Sir Mel Stride

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of estates subject to paying Inheritance Tax in (a) the most recent year for which data is available and (b) each year up to 2030-31.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson

The statistics for the number of estates subject to paying inheritance tax (IHT) are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-liabilities-statistics. The statistics for the number of estates forecast to pay inheritance tax are...

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