HC Deb 08 June 1993 vol 226 cc201-2W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 20 May,Official Report, column 284, to what investigations the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise have been subject by the Data Protection Registrar in relation to a suspected breach of a data protection principle; if he will summarise the nature

(4) what is his estimate of the cost of tax relief for (a) employers' and (b) employees' contributions to occupa-tional pension schemes in 1992–93 and 1993–94 for (i) higher rate taxpayers and (ii) basic rate taxpayers giving in each case the number of taxpayers in receipt of employers' contributions and the average contribution.

Mr. Dorrell

I regret that this detailed distributional information is not available. Available statistics on the total costs are published in chapter 6 of "Inland Revenue Statistics 1992".