Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Revenue and Customs Customer Compliance Group has made changes to its recruitment plans because of an overspend in 2017-18.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Customer Compliance Group is not expecting to overspend in 2017-18.

At Spending Review 2015 HMRC committed to deliver £717m of sustainable resource savings by 2019-20, delivered through digitisation of tax collection and a smaller but more highly skilled workforce.

Spending Review 2015 also confirmed £800m funding up to 2020-21 for additional work in Customer Compliance Group to tackle evasion and non-compliance in the tax system.

Customer Compliance Group’s recruitment plans reflect these long term commitments.