Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money has been recovered by debt collection companies contracted by HMRC since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.

Since March 2020, private sector debt collection agencies have collected £321 million on behalf of HMRC. To put that into context, HMRC have collected £38.7 billion of debt in total in the period from April to November 2020.