Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full-time equivalent staff the taxpayer protection taskforce has.

At Spring Budget 2021, the Government announced a £100 million investment into a Taxpayer Protection Taskforce to significantly extend HMRC’s work to tackle fraud and error in the COVID support schemes that HMRC administered (Self Employment Income Support Scheme, Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Eat Out to Help Out). This investment has funded 1,265 Full Time Equivalent staff for over the two years to 31 March 2023.