Revenue and Customs: Staff

(asked on 4th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many FTE HM Revenue and Customs staff of what civil service grade worked on which category of tax compliance activity in each of the last five financial years.


Answered by
Nigel Huddleston Portrait
Nigel Huddleston
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 7th December 2023

HMRC takes a flexible and dynamic approach to resourcing in order to achieve its objectives. Within Customer Compliance Group, staff are deployed across a wide range of compliance risks. Internally, these are usually grouped by customer segment, tax head or specific tax risk being worked.

To that effect, the data requested is not currently available by grade due to our systems not being able to segment data in a way that directly answers the request, and therefore this information would only be available at disproportionate cost.

HMRC publishes information on the amounts spent on compliance by customer segment in our annual report and accounts at Tax by different customer groups – 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The information for 2023/24 will be available in 2024. HMRC does not release detailed breakdowns of this information for operational reasons.

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