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<p>HMRC is confident that its overall strategy of moving to regional centres is correct.
There are no current plans to retain any other offices for longer.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC
does however recognise that its approach needs to be flexible to ensure it can respond
to changing priorities, which may involve closing some offices earlier than originally
planned or, as in the case of Peterlee, keeping other offices open later than planned.</p><p>
</p><p>On 8 January 2019 HMRC published an updated version of the Locations Programme
<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/issue-briefing-hmrc-announces-next-step-in-its-ten-year-modernisation-programme/hmrc-makes-significant-progress-in-its-10-year-transformation-to-become-a-tax-authority-fit-for-the-future"
target="_blank">Issue Briefing</a> on Gov.UK, setting out progress since the previous
publication in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has also recently updated the Office Closure
List which was previously provided to the House of Commons Library in December 2017.
It shows the closure year for each office as announced in November 2015 and the updated
closure date as at 30 November 2018.</p>
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