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800573

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Security Guards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons HMRC is seeking to outsource security at its offices rather than utilising a directly employed workforce.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	117194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>HMRC’s security arrangements are made up of a number of elements including an Access Control Service. Contractors already provide this service at the majority of HMRC sites with these arrangements. The engagement of a specialist security supplier at all sites will provide HMRC with a consistent, standardised and responsive Access Control Service that will safeguard people, information and assets through a readily available, industry standard trained, specialist security workforce. The flexibility of the service will also enable HMRC to meet future service standards effectively.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 12/12/2017 14:48:49 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

800574

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Security Guards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has, with the full involvement HMRC workers and trade unions, to (a) refine the new access control service standard, (b) review pilot arrangements at Ruskin Square, Croydon, (c) complete a full equality impact assessment, (d) complete a full people impact assessment and (e) conduct health and safety risk impact assessments for the new access control service standard before any security posts are outsourced at HMRC offices.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	117195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>HMRC is committed to ongoing consultation over the following:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Staff and Trade Union involvement in the further refinement of the Access Control Service Standard based on regular reviews and informed by experience, including lessons learnt from the pilot arrangements at Ruskin Square Croydon.</p></li><li><p>Further consultation on the ongoing development of the Equality and People Impact Assessments and the Health and Safety risk impact assessments.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC is committed to working with its staff and Departmental Trade Unions to build a support package for the people impacted by the introduction of a revised Access Control Service.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 12/12/2017 14:49:38 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

760207

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Government plans to respond to the Public Accounts Committee report on the HM Revenue and Customs Estate, published on 28 April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	10496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Due to the June Election, Queen’s Speech and Ministerial and Select Committee appointments, the Government’s response to this report has been rescheduled and will be laid before Parliament (as Treasury Minutes) on 19 October 2017.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 09/10/2017 13:01:28 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

759178

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Glasgow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of its proposals to relocate HM Revenue and Customs staff to a regional office in Glasgow on disabled staff.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	9878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) conducted a high level people impact assessment using known workforce management data to inform the regional centre location decisions. People and equality impacts are managed at both programme and regional level to mitigate potential impacts on different groups, including disabled staff. The regional people and equality impact assessment is undertaken early in the project and is updated on a regular basis throughout the project.</p><p> </p><p>All staff are offered a one-to-one discussion, normally about a year before any office move which affects them, to establish whether they can move. Under the reasonable adjustment policy, HMRC will work with individuals with particular needs to identify any adjustments required to enable this. Accessibility to regional centres has been factored into overall requirements for those centres from the outset.</p><p> </p><p>As previously announced, the Glasgow Regional Centre is expected to have between 2,700 and 3,000 full time equivalent posts when it opens. East Kilbride will be retained as a transitional site beyond the opening date of the Glasgow Regional Centre until 2025-26. The number of current full time equivalent staff employed at the offices which will feed into the Glasgow Regional Centre is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Office</p></td><td><p>Closure date as announced</p></td><td><p>Full Time Equivalent Employees as of 31/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Destination by 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbernauld</p></td><td><p>Accounts Office <em>Timing depends on Accounts Office in Shipley</em></p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>980</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Portcullis House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Kilbride</p></td><td><p>Plaza Tower</p></td><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>1600</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Specific details about the rental liability of the current HMRC offices in the Glasgow area is commercially sensitive information; disclosing it could compromise the future ability of the landlords to re-let the buildings.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9764 9765 9766 9767 question first answered 14/09/2017 11:24:52 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

759184

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Glasgow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) capacity and (b) occupancy level is for each of the HM Revenue and Customs offices which are to be consolidated into the proposed regional centre in Glasgow.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	9764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) conducted a high level people impact assessment using known workforce management data to inform the regional centre location decisions. People and equality impacts are managed at both programme and regional level to mitigate potential impacts on different groups, including disabled staff. The regional people and equality impact assessment is undertaken early in the project and is updated on a regular basis throughout the project.</p><p> </p><p>All staff are offered a one-to-one discussion, normally about a year before any office move which affects them, to establish whether they can move. Under the reasonable adjustment policy, HMRC will work with individuals with particular needs to identify any adjustments required to enable this. Accessibility to regional centres has been factored into overall requirements for those centres from the outset.</p><p> </p><p>As previously announced, the Glasgow Regional Centre is expected to have between 2,700 and 3,000 full time equivalent posts when it opens. East Kilbride will be retained as a transitional site beyond the opening date of the Glasgow Regional Centre until 2025-26. The number of current full time equivalent staff employed at the offices which will feed into the Glasgow Regional Centre is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Office</p></td><td><p>Closure date as announced</p></td><td><p>Full Time Equivalent Employees as of 31/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Destination by 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbernauld</p></td><td><p>Accounts Office <em>Timing depends on Accounts Office in Shipley</em></p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>980</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Portcullis House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Kilbride</p></td><td><p>Plaza Tower</p></td><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>1600</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Specific details about the rental liability of the current HMRC offices in the Glasgow area is commercially sensitive information; disclosing it could compromise the future ability of the landlords to re-let the buildings.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9765 9766 9767 9878 question first answered 14/09/2017 11:24:52 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

759185

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Glasgow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff are employed at each HM Revenue and Customs office to be consolidated to form the proposed regional centre in Glasgow.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	9765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) conducted a high level people impact assessment using known workforce management data to inform the regional centre location decisions. People and equality impacts are managed at both programme and regional level to mitigate potential impacts on different groups, including disabled staff. The regional people and equality impact assessment is undertaken early in the project and is updated on a regular basis throughout the project.</p><p> </p><p>All staff are offered a one-to-one discussion, normally about a year before any office move which affects them, to establish whether they can move. Under the reasonable adjustment policy, HMRC will work with individuals with particular needs to identify any adjustments required to enable this. Accessibility to regional centres has been factored into overall requirements for those centres from the outset.</p><p> </p><p>As previously announced, the Glasgow Regional Centre is expected to have between 2,700 and 3,000 full time equivalent posts when it opens. East Kilbride will be retained as a transitional site beyond the opening date of the Glasgow Regional Centre until 2025-26. The number of current full time equivalent staff employed at the offices which will feed into the Glasgow Regional Centre is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Office</p></td><td><p>Closure date as announced</p></td><td><p>Full Time Equivalent Employees as of 31/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Destination by 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbernauld</p></td><td><p>Accounts Office <em>Timing depends on Accounts Office in Shipley</em></p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>980</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Portcullis House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Kilbride</p></td><td><p>Plaza Tower</p></td><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>1600</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Specific details about the rental liability of the current HMRC offices in the Glasgow area is commercially sensitive information; disclosing it could compromise the future ability of the landlords to re-let the buildings.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9764 9766 9767 9878 question first answered 14/09/2017 11:24:52 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

759186

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Glasgow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the rental liability is for each of the HM Revenue and Customs sites which are proposed to be consolidated in the new regional centre in Glasgow.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	9766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) conducted a high level people impact assessment using known workforce management data to inform the regional centre location decisions. People and equality impacts are managed at both programme and regional level to mitigate potential impacts on different groups, including disabled staff. The regional people and equality impact assessment is undertaken early in the project and is updated on a regular basis throughout the project.</p><p> </p><p>All staff are offered a one-to-one discussion, normally about a year before any office move which affects them, to establish whether they can move. Under the reasonable adjustment policy, HMRC will work with individuals with particular needs to identify any adjustments required to enable this. Accessibility to regional centres has been factored into overall requirements for those centres from the outset.</p><p> </p><p>As previously announced, the Glasgow Regional Centre is expected to have between 2,700 and 3,000 full time equivalent posts when it opens. East Kilbride will be retained as a transitional site beyond the opening date of the Glasgow Regional Centre until 2025-26. The number of current full time equivalent staff employed at the offices which will feed into the Glasgow Regional Centre is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Office</p></td><td><p>Closure date as announced</p></td><td><p>Full Time Equivalent Employees as of 31/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Destination by 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbernauld</p></td><td><p>Accounts Office <em>Timing depends on Accounts Office in Shipley</em></p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>980</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Portcullis House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Kilbride</p></td><td><p>Plaza Tower</p></td><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>1600</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Specific details about the rental liability of the current HMRC offices in the Glasgow area is commercially sensitive information; disclosing it could compromise the future ability of the landlords to re-let the buildings.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9764 9765 9767 9878 question first answered 14/09/2017 11:24:52 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

759187

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Glasgow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the proposed office capacity is at the HM Revenue and Customs regional centre in Glasgow.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	9767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) conducted a high level people impact assessment using known workforce management data to inform the regional centre location decisions. People and equality impacts are managed at both programme and regional level to mitigate potential impacts on different groups, including disabled staff. The regional people and equality impact assessment is undertaken early in the project and is updated on a regular basis throughout the project.</p><p> </p><p>All staff are offered a one-to-one discussion, normally about a year before any office move which affects them, to establish whether they can move. Under the reasonable adjustment policy, HMRC will work with individuals with particular needs to identify any adjustments required to enable this. Accessibility to regional centres has been factored into overall requirements for those centres from the outset.</p><p> </p><p>As previously announced, the Glasgow Regional Centre is expected to have between 2,700 and 3,000 full time equivalent posts when it opens. East Kilbride will be retained as a transitional site beyond the opening date of the Glasgow Regional Centre until 2025-26. The number of current full time equivalent staff employed at the offices which will feed into the Glasgow Regional Centre is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Office</p></td><td><p>Closure date as announced</p></td><td><p>Full Time Equivalent Employees as of 31/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Destination by 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbernauld</p></td><td><p>Accounts Office <em>Timing depends on Accounts Office in Shipley</em></p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>980</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Portcullis House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Kilbride</p></td><td><p>Plaza Tower</p></td><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>1600</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Specific details about the rental liability of the current HMRC offices in the Glasgow area is commercially sensitive information; disclosing it could compromise the future ability of the landlords to re-let the buildings.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9764 9765 9766 9878 question first answered 14/09/2017 11:24:52 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

759188

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many members of staff contracted to work at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) offices in (a) Portcullis House and (b) Cotton House, Glasgow are routinely based in HMRC Cumbernauld.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	9768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>Information on whether a member of staff is routinely based at another office is not held centrally and so could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 14/09/2017 13:13:02 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

690219

registered interest
date	17/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the timetable is for making available the Making Tax Digital free software; and whether his Department plans to provide financial support to small businesses to cover the cost of purchasing software in the event that the free software does not enable them to be fully compliant with Making Tax Digital.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	64200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs is working closely with the software industry to ensure that a range of software products (including free software) is available before the commencement of Making Tax Digital in April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The tax system already provides support via various reliefs and deductions for the purchase of hardware and software as well as other expenditure. As part of the Making Tax Digital consultations, the Government sought views on further financial assistance and support. Given the views expressed, it announced on 31 January that it will continue to consider options for assistance and support alongside the fiscal impacts.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 64652 question first answered 23/02/2017 15:30:46 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald