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date	15/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Appleby: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has taken legal steps to obtain information held by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists relating to the Paradise papers.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	113170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>HMRC does not have power to acquire journalistic material held overseas and, therefore, is unable to obtain the information held by the ICIJ ‎known as the Paradise Papers. However, HMRC has requested access to the material that has been provided by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to the BBC and <em>The Guardian</em>. HMRC has also encouraged these organisations to pass on any information that points to wrongdoing and are prepared to look at every allegation in full.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/11/2017 14:25:03 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

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date	15/11/2017
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 were charged with tax evasion in each year from 2010 to date; and how many of those people served a custodial sentence as a result of that tax evasion.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	113172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs is not itself a prosecuting authority. All prosecutions have to be authorised by the relevant independent prosecuting authority, which for England and Wales would be the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); for Scotland, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS); and for Northern Ireland, the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland (PPSNI).</p><p> </p><p>The custodial sentences handed down in a particular financial year may be in respect of charging decisions made in previous years, due to the length of time individuals can take to proceed through the judicial system from charging decision to outcome. They therefore do not correlate directly to the number of charging decisions in that financial year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Positive Charging Decisions</p></td><td><p>Number of Custodial Sentences Handed Down</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>501</p></td><td><p>241</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>739</p></td><td><p>227</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>880</p></td><td><p>241</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1254</p></td><td><p>247</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1067</p></td><td><p>272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>1067</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/11/2017 14:37:39 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon