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1700029

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date	12/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Collection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HM Revenue and Customs has taken to improve tax compliance yield.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	20846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The UK tax gap is currently low and stable, falling from 7.5 per cent in 2005 to 2006 to 4.8 per cent in 2021 to 2022.</p><p> </p><p>In 2022 to 2023, compliance action from HMRC secured and protected £34 billion for public services that would otherwise have gone unpaid. 2023 to 2024 compliance yield figures indicate that they are on track to exceed last year’s performance.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC is making it easier for customers to get it right first time and hard to get wrong by investing in digital systems, simplifying policies and processes, and improving guidance and support to improve compliance.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, the Government has also introduced over 200 new measures to tackle many different forms of non-compliance. Most recently, at Spring Budget 2024, the government announced a new package of measures to tackle the tax gap, which will raise over £4.5 billion over the next five years.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 22/04/2024 14:43:44 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1700030

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full time equivalent staff were employed in HM Revenue and Customs Customer Compliance Group for each of the last ten years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	20847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government has committed to ensuring HMRC has sufficient funding to maintain its compliance performance over time, while continuing to make efficiencies. Within Customer Compliance Group, staff are deployed across a wide range of compliance risks. Internally, these are usually grouped by customer segment, tax head or specific tax risk being worked.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC publishes information on the amounts spent on compliance by customer segment in our annual report and accounts at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023-technical-notes/tax-by-different-customer-groups-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">Tax by different customer groups – 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. The information for 2023 to 24 will be available in 2024. HMRC does not release detailed breakdowns of this information for operational reasons.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 22/04/2024 16:39:42 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1700099

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Holiday Accommodation: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the abolition of the furnished holiday lettings tax regime on farms.
tabling member constituency	Suffolk Coastal
tabling member printed	Dr Thérèse Coffey
uin	21018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important role that Furnished Holiday Lets (FHL), including those located on farms, have in the visitor economy. This measure does not penalise or prohibit the provision of FHLs and simply brings their tax treatment in line with other rentals.</p><p> </p><p>As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government keeps the taxation of property landlords under review and any decision on future changes will be taken by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 22/04/2024 16:41:14 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey

1700257

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT Zero Rating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 16 May 2023 to question 183900 on Sanitary Products: VAT, what steps he has taken to review whether the zero-rating for VAT on period products is being passed on by retailers to women in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	21069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The government monitors publicly available data to assess the extent to which reliefs are passed through after their introduction, and is keen to ensure that the savings achieved through tax reliefs reach the intended recipients. We have engaged with stakeholders over the last 12 months to ensure they commit to passing on the savings realised from the zero-rating of period products, including following the expansion of the relief to period underwear in January 2024.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 22/04/2024 16:38:05 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1700313

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Termination of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff left his Department in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	21088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The number of staff who left HMT each year since 2015 is available via <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics#annual-statistics" target="_blank">Civil Service statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 22/04/2024 16:17:53 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight