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	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2018 to Question 201166 on Tax Avoidance, what estimate his Department has made of the level of self-employment to produce those projections.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	203408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The off-payroll working rules ensure that individuals who work like employees pay broadly the same tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs) as other employees, regardless of the structure they work through. As announced at Budget 2018, the government is extending the earlier reforms to improve compliance with these rules in the private sector. The rules do not affect people who are genuinely self-employed.</p><p> </p><p>The forecast costing was analysed and certified by the independent OBR.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 07/01/2019 17:38:54 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1027695

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Canterbury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 7 March 2018, Official Report, column 428, how many and what proportion of HMRC staff in Charter House Canterbury are expected to (a) transfer to HMRC Regional Centre and (b) complete their career in that location.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	203412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>HMRC wants to keep as many employees as possible as it moves to its regional centres. It has been clear that if someone can move to a regional centre and has the skills it needs or is able to develop them, there will be a role for them.</p><p> </p><p>For Canterbury, Charter House, current planning data shows that around 34 full-time equivalent (FTE) people, or 51 per cent, will transfer to either the Croydon or Stratford Regional Centre.</p><p> </p><p>Canterbury, Charter House is scheduled to close in February 2020, before the Stratford Regional Centre opens. HMRC staff who can will therefore initially move to Maidstone, Medvale House, which will be staying open until late 2020-21. HMRC expects 45 FTE people, or 67 per cent, will transfer to Maidstone.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC cannot be certain about how many will actually be able to move to a regional centre or the numbers who may complete their career at either Canterbury or Maidstone until one-to-one discussions with managers have taken place. These will be held around a year before any move. Demographic data for the office suggests that many staff may choose to retire when the office closes.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 07/01/2019 17:42:38 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1027743

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) reports of suspicious (i) e-mails, (ii) text messages and (iii) phone calls asking for personal information or threatening a lawsuit were received by HMRC, (b) individuals believed to have been responsible for those communications were (i) identified, (ii) charged and (iii) convicted, (c) HMRC staff were deployed to investigate phishing scams in 2017-18 and (d) HMRC staff have been deployed to investigate such scams in 2018-19; and what recent (A) steps HMRC has taken and (B) assessment he has made of its performance in tackling such scams.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	203305
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>From April 2018 to November 2018, HMRC has received:</p><p> </p><ol><li><p>reports of suspicious:</p><p>(i) e-mails – 636,789</p><p>(ii) text messages – 28,639</p><p>(iii) phone calls asking for personal information or threatening a lawsuit were received by HMRC – 44,435</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has a dedicated Customer Protection team targeting scams, which has:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Reduced reported HMRC-branded phishing texts by 90% due to innovative work with network operators and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).</li><li>Requested removal of over 14,000 websites during financial year 2017/2018.</li><li>Blocked half a billion phishing emails through technical controls since 2016.</li><li>Published guidance on GOV.UK on how to identify scams that has been visited 1.4 million times during financial year 2017/2018.</li><li>Responded to nearly 1 million phishing referrals in the same period.</li><li>Recovered over 130 websites infringing the HMRC brand including those which host low value services such as call connection sites, saving customers in excess of £2.4M in charges to date.</li></ul><p> </p><p>However, the information required to answer (b), (c) and (d) cannot be provided as releasing it may prejudice the prevention or detection of crime. The information could be used by individuals for criminal activity and departmental IT systems could be exposed or left vulnerable to interference or attack.</p></li></ol><p>Doing so could give criminals valuable insight into HMRC’s capabilities and processes in this area and cybersecurity in general, opening up the Department and the wider public to more informed and effective scams and attacks. While publishing the information requested could, on the face of it, reassure the public that HMRC is suitably resourced to handle risks posed by cybercrime, on balance it is not in the public interest.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 07/01/2019 17:42:38 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts