Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of moving staff from HMRC's Customer Compliance Group to Covid-19 schemes on the compliance yield for 2020-21 and 2021-22.

At the Spring Budget 2021 the Government announced a £100m investment into a Taxpayer Protection Taskforce to significantly extend His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs’ work to address fraud and error in the HMRC administered COVID-19 support schemes (Self Employment Income Support Scheme, Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Eat Out to Help Out).

The TPT investment has enabled HMRC to recruit and train new people to backfill these tax compliance posts; and in future years these additional resources will mitigate the impact on taxation compliance yield over the 5-year scorecard period.