Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases of historical tax avoidance HMRC has outstanding.

The Government is committed to tackling tax avoidance and ensuring that everyone pays their fair share of tax to fund vital public services

In 2013 HMRC set up a dedicated Counter Avoidance Directorate, bringing together technical, policy and operational expertise from across the Department into one place, in order to concentrate their focus on tackling marketed tax avoidance schemes. Since then over £8.7 billion has been brought in from accelerated payments and settling marketed avoidance cases. HMRC currently have around 80,000 users of tax avoidance schemes under review.