Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many HMRC legal investigations into (a) individuals and (b) businesses were launched in financial year 2021-22; and the average length of those investigations.
Information on the total number of opened compliance checks in 2021-22 can accessed within the latest HMRC quarterly performance publication as below:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1101475/HMRC_quarterly_performance_data_table_Q4_2021_to_2022.xlsx