Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has allocated to HMRC's dedicated tax avoidance and evasion team for developing countries since Autumn Statement 2014.

HMRC has allocated £1.8 million from the Overseas Development Assistance element of its budget to support developing countries through various projects such as Capacity Building Unit across a three year period from 2015/16 to 2017/18.