§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Lord McIntosh of Haringey):My right honourable friend the Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Copies of the 2004–05 edition of the Tax Benefit Reference Manual (TBRM) are today being deposited in the Libraries of the House.
Her Majesty's Treasury publishes the TBRM annually. It is a technical manual detailing the tax and benefit system, describing both the current and historic regimes. There are also tables of time series covering tax and benefit rates, numbers of taxpayers and benefit claimants, VAT and duty rates and the tax burden on specimen households.