Revenue and Customs: Redundancy
(asked on 12th March 2020) - View SourceQuestioner
Stuart C McDonald
(Scottish National Party - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost has been of (a) voluntary exits, (b) voluntary redundancies and (c) compulsory redundancies among the staff of HMRC since the start of the Building our Future Programme.
Since the start of the Building Our Future Programme, 2,695 people have left HMRC as a result of Voluntary Exit, Voluntary Redundancy or Compulsory Redundancy at a cost of £91,618,846. Tables a) and b) below provide a breakdown of those numbers and associated costs.
For offices closing in 2020-21, HMRC estimate that there will be approximately 3,138 exits at a cost of £128,523,595. Table c) provides a breakdown of those estimated exits by type.
a) Breakdown of exits to date, by type and by region
Region | Total number of exits | Voluntary Exit | Voluntary Redundancy |
| Compulsory Redundancy |
East | 278 | 171 | 97 |
| 10 |
East Midlands | 138 | 61 | 73 |
| 4 |
London | 162 | 54 | 106 |
| 2 |
North East | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 0 |
North West | 644 | 0 | 580 |
| 64 |
Northern Ireland | 188 | 16 | 161 |
| 11 |
Scotland | 233 | 0 | 214 |
| 19 |
South East | 373 | 18 | 315 |
| 40 |
South West | 525 | 116 | 350 |
| 59 |
West Midlands | 103 | 20 | 78 |
| 5 |
Yorks & Humber | 47 | 15 | 30 |
| 2 |
Grand Total | 2695 | 471 | 2008 |
| 216 |
b) Breakdown of exit cost to date, by type
Total Exit Costs | Voluntary Exit | Voluntary Redundancy | Compulsory Redundancy |
£91,618,846 | £17,494,697 | £71,110,401 | £3,013,748 |
c) Breakdown of exits relating to 2020-21 office closures
Estimated number of exits | Estimated exit cost | Estimated Voluntary Exit | Estimated Voluntary Redundancy | Estimated Compulsory Redundancy |
3,138 | £128,523,595 | 0 | 2,887 | 251 |