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1134441

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC has plans to publish its correspondence with (a) tax payers and (b) agents.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	269070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>HMRC have no plans to publish their correspondence with tax payers and agents.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs are bound by a strict duty of confidentiality with respect to all of the information they hold in connection with their functions. HMRC officials may share information only in the limited circumstances set out in legislation, which include disclosures for the purposes of HMRC’s functions, through specific ‘legislative gateways’ or with a person’s consent.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/07/2019 14:34:49 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1020847

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he plans to respond to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Sub-Committee report entitled The Powers of HMRC: Treating Taxpayers Fairly, HC 242.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	200140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government will respond to the sub-Committee’s report in due course and in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 200151 question first answered 12/12/2018 13:57:24 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1020872

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Sub-Committee report entitled The powers of HMRC: treating taxpayers fairly, HL 242.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen South
tabling member printed	Ross Thomson
uin	200151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government will respond to the sub-Committee’s report in due course and in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 200140 question first answered 12/12/2018 13:57:24 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4599 label Biography information for Ross Thomson

1020328

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to respond to the fourth report of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Sub Committee report, The Powers of HMRC: Treating Taxpayers Fairly, HL paper 242, published on 4 December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	199423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government will respond to the sub-Committee’s report in due course and in the usual way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 14/12/2018 13:49:16 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

928716

registered interest
date	21/06/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many court and tribunal cases (a) brought by HMRC and (b) against HMRC are awaiting a hearing.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
uin	156308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2018 answer text <p>This data is not collated centrally, and an accurate answer could not be provided except at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of HMRC cases are waiting to be heard before the First Tier Tribunal. At 31 March 2018, there were over 25,000 appeals on hand in the FTT. Over 16,000 of those appeals are ‘stood over’. This is where HMRC and the taxpayer have agreed to put the appeal on hold waiting for a decision in a related case. Stood over cases are not actively progressed by the tribunal and can remain on hand for many years while the lead case is decided.</p><p> </p><p>There are approximately 9,000 lead cases actively making their way through the First Tier Tribunal where HMRC are either actively working the cases, progressing them within tribunal directions, or are waiting either to be heard by the tribunal or awaiting a tribunal decisions to be issued.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 29/06/2018 09:42:00 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

927032

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the financial savings which will arise from the Building Our Future programme.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	155393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>HMRC’s Building our Future Locations Programme is the key to its wider transformation. HMRC currently expects that the move to regional centres will result in savings of around £300 million up to 2025. The Locations Programme will also deliver annual cash savings of £74 million in 2025-26, compared with 2015-16 costs, rising to around £90 million by 2028, while improving customer service and modernising how HMRC works.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 27/06/2018 11:35:17 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

910331

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of Jon Thompson, Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary to HM Revenue and Customs to the Treasury Committee on 23 May 2018 relating to the postponement of 39 HMRC projects, if he will provide details on which projects have been postponed.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	147521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>In response to a question from the Public Accounts Committee on 30 April, HMRC wrote to the Committee with details of these 39 projects. HMRC have subsequently written to the Treasury Committee in similar terms, following a question from that Committee on 23 May.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 04/06/2018 16:38:42 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

867188

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of whether the transition to regional HMRC centres through the Building Our Future programme will be effected by the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	133306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>HMRC is considering how best to accommodate any potential additional resources required as the UK exits the EU. HMRC does not believe that these developments will require any significant change to its long term strategy to move to regional centres.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 26/03/2018 13:34:56 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

824430

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much additional funding has been allocated to HM Revenue and Customs to tackle tax avoidance since the release of the Paradise Papers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>HMRC will investigate any allegations of wrongdoing brought to its attention. In the Autumn Budget 2017, the government confirmed 18 further measures and additional investment in HMRC to tackle avoidance, evasion, and non-compliance.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has generated over £160 billion of additional yield since 2010 from tackling avoidance, evasion and non-compliance. There are currently 26,000 people working in the Customer Compliance Group tackling all forms of non-compliance – ranging from individuals operating in the hidden economy, through to detailed investigation of offshore structures and scrutinising the tax affairs of the largest multi-national companies.</p><p> </p><p>The Joint Financial Analysis Centre (JFAC) established in the wake of the Panama Papers brings together data and intelligence from across Government and has developed into a national capability underpinning the Government’s ambitions to fight complex tax and economic crime, at home and overseas.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 123232 question first answered 23/01/2018 15:37:08 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel