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date	24/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Unfair Dismissal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to reduce the qualifying period for claiming unfair dismissal.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	110432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2022 answer text <p>The qualifying periods are intended to strike the right balance between ensuring fairness for employees and providing flexibility to employers.</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note that no qualifying period applies if a dismissal is for certain specified reasons which are particularly serious, or because employees have claimed another statutory employment right, for example the right not to be unlawfully discriminated against or to request flexible working. We believe this provides the right balance for employers and employees.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/02/2022 16:09:38 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

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date	30/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tax Evasion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are employed to investigate tax evasion in the HM Revenue and Customs (a) affluent unit and (b) high net worth unit; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	110432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have brought together their High Net Worth Unit and Affluent teams to form a single Wealthy team. This organisational change will ensure that HMRC deploy their specialist, highly skilled resource on those wealthy individuals that present the highest compliance risk.</p><p> </p><p>As at 31 March 2017, the team had approximately 1040 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. Customer compliance activity as a whole forms is the largest part of HMRC by staff numbers.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 07/11/2017 16:39:28 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens