§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) when he next expects to conduct a survey of personal incomes; and at what point the results of that survey will become known;
(2) what survey of personal incomes have been carried out since 1985–86; and at what point the results of those surveys will become known.
§ Mr. Norman LamontInland Revenue conducts the survey of personal incomes annually and the full range of data is normally available about 18 months after the end of the tax year to which the survey refers. Projections of the data are normally available after a further two or three months. The 1985–86 survey has been in use for some 15 months, both for Government purposes and to answer inquiries from the public; some tables compiled from it will be published shortly in "Inland Revenue Statistics 1988". Data and projections from the 1986–87 survey have recently begun to be used.