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1105342

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many sites HMRC have vacated since 15 November 2015.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	237203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Since November 2015, when HMRC announced its ten-year location strategy which will see it become a tax authority fit for the future, it has closed 76 of the 170 offices which it occupied at that time.</p><p> </p><p>Of the 76 offices, 72 were managed under the STEPS Private Finance Initiative contract. Of the 72 offices under the STEPS contract, 58 were not Mapeley freehold properties. There were four offices which were not under the STEPS contract.</p><p> </p><p>When HMRC vacates an office in accordance with its operational requirements, it would seek to dispose of the building following any remedial work which needed to be completed. It may choose to retain the building if other government departments are based at the location and are funding the remaining lease. HMRC is not paying rent on any of the 76 offices which have been vacated since November 2015 and none of them have been left unoccupied.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also manages properties on behalf of other government departments where there is no HMRC presence and those departments pay HMRC for the use of the building.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC continues to support staff through its transformation. For those who can move it is providing payments towards increases in travel costs paid for up to five years, and for those who cannot move with HMRC it continues to seek opportunities in other government departments, in addition to any support with upskilling where relevant. HMRC wants to keep as many employees as possible and through one-to-one conversations with managers it will explore smarter ways of working and flexibility with working hours where this is possible. Moving to regional centres will save around £300 million up to 2025 with annual cash savings of around £90 million from 2028, while improving customer service and modernising how HMRC works.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 237204 237205 237206 237208 question first answered 01/04/2019 15:37:20 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1105345

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many sites vacated by HMRC since 15 November 2015 were sites managed under the STEPS contract.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	237206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Since November 2015, when HMRC announced its ten-year location strategy which will see it become a tax authority fit for the future, it has closed 76 of the 170 offices which it occupied at that time.</p><p> </p><p>Of the 76 offices, 72 were managed under the STEPS Private Finance Initiative contract. Of the 72 offices under the STEPS contract, 58 were not Mapeley freehold properties. There were four offices which were not under the STEPS contract.</p><p> </p><p>When HMRC vacates an office in accordance with its operational requirements, it would seek to dispose of the building following any remedial work which needed to be completed. It may choose to retain the building if other government departments are based at the location and are funding the remaining lease. HMRC is not paying rent on any of the 76 offices which have been vacated since November 2015 and none of them have been left unoccupied.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also manages properties on behalf of other government departments where there is no HMRC presence and those departments pay HMRC for the use of the building.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC continues to support staff through its transformation. For those who can move it is providing payments towards increases in travel costs paid for up to five years, and for those who cannot move with HMRC it continues to seek opportunities in other government departments, in addition to any support with upskilling where relevant. HMRC wants to keep as many employees as possible and through one-to-one conversations with managers it will explore smarter ways of working and flexibility with working hours where this is possible. Moving to regional centres will save around £300 million up to 2025 with annual cash savings of around £90 million from 2028, while improving customer service and modernising how HMRC works.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 237203 237204 237205 237208 question first answered 01/04/2019 15:37:20 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1105347

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many sites that HMRC has vacated since 15 November 2015 were sites (a) not under the STEPS contract and (b) where the freeholder was not Mapeley.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	237208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Since November 2015, when HMRC announced its ten-year location strategy which will see it become a tax authority fit for the future, it has closed 76 of the 170 offices which it occupied at that time.</p><p> </p><p>Of the 76 offices, 72 were managed under the STEPS Private Finance Initiative contract. Of the 72 offices under the STEPS contract, 58 were not Mapeley freehold properties. There were four offices which were not under the STEPS contract.</p><p> </p><p>When HMRC vacates an office in accordance with its operational requirements, it would seek to dispose of the building following any remedial work which needed to be completed. It may choose to retain the building if other government departments are based at the location and are funding the remaining lease. HMRC is not paying rent on any of the 76 offices which have been vacated since November 2015 and none of them have been left unoccupied.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also manages properties on behalf of other government departments where there is no HMRC presence and those departments pay HMRC for the use of the building.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC continues to support staff through its transformation. For those who can move it is providing payments towards increases in travel costs paid for up to five years, and for those who cannot move with HMRC it continues to seek opportunities in other government departments, in addition to any support with upskilling where relevant. HMRC wants to keep as many employees as possible and through one-to-one conversations with managers it will explore smarter ways of working and flexibility with working hours where this is possible. Moving to regional centres will save around £300 million up to 2025 with annual cash savings of around £90 million from 2028, while improving customer service and modernising how HMRC works.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 237203 237204 237205 237206 question first answered 01/04/2019 15:37:20 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

991140

registered interest
date	19/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury of 7 March 2018, Official report, column 428, what estimate he has made of the cash savings for 2025-26 onwards arising from the HMRC Building our Future Programme.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	181588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>Moving to regional centres will save around £300 million up to 2025. HMRC’s Locations Programme will deliver annual cash savings of £74 million in 2025/26, rising to around £90 million from 2028.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 29/10/2018 10:58:55 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

990357

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
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, what estimate he has made of the savings to the public purse up to 2025 as a result of the HMRC Building our Future programme.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	181247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 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>In 2015, planning indicated that up to 90% of its workforce across the UK at that time would either work in a regional centre or see out their career in an HMRC office.</p><p> </p><p>In East Kilbride, updated planning data shows that around 75% of staff in Plaza Tower and 80% in Queensway House, East Kilbride, will move to the Glasgow Regional Centre or see out their career in an HMRC office. In East Kilbride data indicates that 33% of staff in Plaza Tower and 43% in Queensway House are over 50 years of age.</p><p> </p><p>By the time all its regional centres have opened, HMRC still expects the figures to be near its original forecast.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC will not know the actual position until one-to-one discussions have taken place with staff which will establish whether an individual can or cannot move.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Moving to regional centres will save around £300 million by 2025. It also avoids potential additional costs of £75 million per annum from 2021, when the current contract with Mapeley come to an end.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 181245 181246 181248 question first answered 26/10/2018 13:45:47 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

747502

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral evidence from the Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to the Public Accounts Committee on the HMRC estate on 25 January 2017, Q14, HC 891, which eight principles HMRC used to determine the location of its regional centres.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	2583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) established a clear set of eight location principles to determine the location of its regional centres. These were:</p><ul><li>· Sustainable large sites – having the capacity to hold all HMRC’s requirements for the region in a single building, ideally accommodating no less than 1,500 staff.</li><li>· Talent pipeline – offering access to a pipeline of future talent, with the skills HMRC needs, for example, close to universities and colleges.</li><li>· Single location career paths – offering the chance to build careers and skills to a senior level in a number of professions in a single location without the need to move.</li><li>· Catchment for a mix of business activity – the right grouping of existing teams to allow a diverse mix of business activities to be brought together in the same place.</li><li>· Digital infrastructure – having high capacity, high speed digital infrastructure and mobile networks to benefit customers and staff.</li><li>· Facilities for HMRC’s people – access to good housing, schools and recreational facilities, so HMRC can recruit and retain staff.</li><li>· Market rates- delivering good value for money in property and labour costs.</li><li>· Robust long-term infrastructure – locations with the right infrastructure for the long term such as strong transport links within the region and nationally.</li></ul><p>HMRC values its people and wants as many as possible to move with the work to the regional centres. In addition to the eight location principles, it looked at where its staff live and initially assessed more than 40 of its existing medium to large sized locations against the principles as possible regional centres. These included: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bolton, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Chatham, Chesterfield, Dover, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Grimsby, Harwich, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Newcastle, Northampton, Nottingham, Peterborough, Peterlee, Preston, Plymouth, Reading, Redruth, Sheffield, Shipley, Solent (including Portsmouth), Southend-on-Sea, Stockton-on –Tees, Taunton, Telford, Workington, Worthing, Wrexham. For areas where a particular town was part of a conurbation, the conurbation was assessed as part of those listed above, for example Sunderland and Washington as part of Newcastle.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s Programme Business Case has received approval from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 2581 2582 question first answered 11/07/2017 16:01:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

747504

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral evidence from the Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to the Public Accounts Committee on the HMRC estate on 25 January 2017, Question 4, HC891, on what date ministerial approval was given for HMRC's strategic outline case for regional centres; and if he will make a statement before the summer recess.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	2582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) established a clear set of eight location principles to determine the location of its regional centres. These were:</p><ul><li>· Sustainable large sites – having the capacity to hold all HMRC’s requirements for the region in a single building, ideally accommodating no less than 1,500 staff.</li><li>· Talent pipeline – offering access to a pipeline of future talent, with the skills HMRC needs, for example, close to universities and colleges.</li><li>· Single location career paths – offering the chance to build careers and skills to a senior level in a number of professions in a single location without the need to move.</li><li>· Catchment for a mix of business activity – the right grouping of existing teams to allow a diverse mix of business activities to be brought together in the same place.</li><li>· Digital infrastructure – having high capacity, high speed digital infrastructure and mobile networks to benefit customers and staff.</li><li>· Facilities for HMRC’s people – access to good housing, schools and recreational facilities, so HMRC can recruit and retain staff.</li><li>· Market rates- delivering good value for money in property and labour costs.</li><li>· Robust long-term infrastructure – locations with the right infrastructure for the long term such as strong transport links within the region and nationally.</li></ul><p>HMRC values its people and wants as many as possible to move with the work to the regional centres. In addition to the eight location principles, it looked at where its staff live and initially assessed more than 40 of its existing medium to large sized locations against the principles as possible regional centres. These included: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bolton, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Chatham, Chesterfield, Dover, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Grimsby, Harwich, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Newcastle, Northampton, Nottingham, Peterborough, Peterlee, Preston, Plymouth, Reading, Redruth, Sheffield, Shipley, Solent (including Portsmouth), Southend-on-Sea, Stockton-on –Tees, Taunton, Telford, Workington, Worthing, Wrexham. For areas where a particular town was part of a conurbation, the conurbation was assessed as part of those listed above, for example Sunderland and Washington as part of Newcastle.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s Programme Business Case has received approval from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 2581 2583 question first answered 11/07/2017 16:01:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

746718

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Revenue and Customs Customer Compliance Group has made changes to its recruitment plans because of an overspend in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	1928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Customer Compliance Group is not expecting to overspend in 2017-18.</p><p> </p><p>At Spending Review 2015 HMRC committed to deliver £717m of sustainable resource savings by 2019-20, delivered through digitisation of tax collection and a smaller but more highly skilled workforce.</p><p> </p><p>Spending Review 2015 also confirmed £800m funding up to 2020-21 for additional work in Customer Compliance Group to tackle evasion and non-compliance in the tax system.</p><p> </p><p>Customer Compliance Group’s recruitment plans reflect these long term commitments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 06/07/2017 15:37:50 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law