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<p>HMRC’s Locations Programme conducts People and Equality Impact Assessments (PEIA)
at a regional and national level; the latter is updated and published on GOV.UK annually.</p><p>
</p><p>HMRC is in the process of refreshing the national PEIA published in July 2019.
HMRC shared the regional PEIA for Stratford with staff in September 2019, which included
impacts and mitigations relating to the workforce in Ealing.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC have
recently carried out and published internally an Equality Impact Assessment on the
implications of COVID-19 on HMRC staff across the department. Work to mitigate impacts
is in progress.</p><p> </p><p>As is always the case, if there are ways in which HMRC
can improve how they deliver their vital public services then they will seek to implement
those improvements. This includes reviewing how HMRC have been able to respond to
COVID-19 and determining whether and how they might be able to sustain any changes
to ways of working that are proven to lead to better outcomes for both HMRC and taxpayers.</p>
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