Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Esther McVey Excerpts
Tuesday 4th November 2025

(1 day, 10 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dan Tomlinson Portrait Dan Tomlinson
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My hon. Friend is a very strong advocate for Telford, both for jobs in the private sector and for those in the public sector that we are able to support in his community. I am glad to hear that he, like me, is proud of HMRC’s Telford campus and wants to see it play a key role in improving customer experience through innovation, AI and digital technology. I will be very happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss those issues.

Esther McVey Portrait Esther McVey (Tatton) (Con)
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The Chancellor has justified her lack of a licence for renting out her house as an “inadvertent error”, but HMRC is never prepared to accept that people make inadvertent errors. Will this now change, or does the Chancellor expect to be treated differently from everyone else who makes an inadvertent error?

Dan Tomlinson Portrait Dan Tomlinson
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I am not sure that the matter that the right hon. Member just raised has much to do with HMRC.