Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the differences in average pay between payroll and non-payroll staff employed in (a) the Treasury and (b) HMRC.

Due to the difference in work requirements the Treasury does not make a comparison between payroll and non-payroll staff to give a meaningful average.

In HMRC when we have a temporary requirement or do not have the necessary skills internally, we engage non-payroll staff. We do not make the comparison between payroll and non-payroll staff due to the nature of our requirements for specialist skills, capacity or capability as there is no equivalence on which to give a meaningful average.