Hospitality Industry: VAT
Commons · Question 9777 · Tabled 15 Jun 2026 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 23 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Euan Stainbank
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of hospitality businesses in Scotland are beneath the VAT registration threshold.
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 23 Jun 2026
The information requested is not available, as the registered addresses of firms held in HMRC’s datasets does not always correspond to the firms’ places of business, and in many cases firms operate both in Scotland and elsewhere in the UK. The UK has the ...