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942861

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date	17/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average length of time has been for filling vacancies in HMRC's National Minimum Wage Compliance Unit in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	165074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum and Living Wage (NMW) receives it. Anyone who feels they have been underpaid NMW should contact the Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100 or via the online complaints form at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pay-and-work-rights-complaints" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of the 2017/18 financial year there were 412 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in NMW compliance teams, up from 352 the previous year. Staffing levels fluctuate throughout the year. HMRC is currently staffed to 83% of planned NMW recruitment, and continues an extensive recruitment process as part of HMRC’s ongoing growth in developing enforcement capability.</p><p> </p><p>Other staff across HMRC also contribute to enforcing the NMW, including lawyers, technical advisers and those specialising in criminal investigations. These staff are not included in these numbers.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold data in the format required to answer the question on average time to fill vacancies within NMW.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has more than trebled annual funding of minimum wage enforcement since 2014, providing a total budget of £26.3m in 2018/19. The additional investment has enabled a significant expansion of resources dedicated to enforcing the minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p>Last year HMRC identified over £15.6m of NMW arrears for over 200,000 workers, which is the largest amount of arrears found for workers in any single year since the NMW was introduced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 165075 question first answered 25/07/2018 10:59:26 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

942862

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the staffing complement is of HMRC's National Minimum Wage Compliance Unit; and how many of those staff posts were unfilled as of 17 July 2018.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	165075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum and Living Wage (NMW) receives it. Anyone who feels they have been underpaid NMW should contact the Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100 or via the online complaints form at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pay-and-work-rights-complaints" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of the 2017/18 financial year there were 412 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in NMW compliance teams, up from 352 the previous year. Staffing levels fluctuate throughout the year. HMRC is currently staffed to 83% of planned NMW recruitment, and continues an extensive recruitment process as part of HMRC’s ongoing growth in developing enforcement capability.</p><p> </p><p>Other staff across HMRC also contribute to enforcing the NMW, including lawyers, technical advisers and those specialising in criminal investigations. These staff are not included in these numbers.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not hold data in the format required to answer the question on average time to fill vacancies within NMW.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has more than trebled annual funding of minimum wage enforcement since 2014, providing a total budget of £26.3m in 2018/19. The additional investment has enabled a significant expansion of resources dedicated to enforcing the minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p>Last year HMRC identified over £15.6m of NMW arrears for over 200,000 workers, which is the largest amount of arrears found for workers in any single year since the NMW was introduced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 165074 question first answered 25/07/2018 10:59:26 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

942863

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the most recent estimate is of the gender pay gap within HMRC.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	165076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>HMRC’s gender pay gap analysis, published in December 2017, showed a base pay gap of 8.4% (mean) and 12.2% (median). Whilst this compares favourably with other Civil Service departments, HMRC is not complacent and are actively working to address the gap. HMRC continues to meet regularly with its recognised unions to review the pay position of all employees; with the shared ambition of ensuring annual pay awards are as fair as is reasonably possible.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 25/07/2018 10:55:32 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

942872

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Evasion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are employed to investigate tax evasion in the HMRC's Customs Wealthy Team Unit; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	165083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>HMRC does not have a team called the “Customs Wealthy Team Unit”. HMRC’s Wealthy team (merging the previous High Net Worth Unit and Affluent teams) as of 31<sup>st</sup> March 2018 had approximately 1046 full time equivalent staff engaged in customer compliance activity. Their roles focus on promoting tax compliance and tackling non-compliance amongst the wealthy population, including, where evidence is found, investigating potential tax evasion. The team works closely with Counter Avoidance and Fraud Investigation Service to ensure HMRC effectively tackle avoidance and evasion within this customer segment.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 25/07/2018 11:01:53 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens