Seema Malhotra – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Seema Malhotra on 2016-02-03.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff of HM Revenue and Customs’ Large Business Service worked on each of that service’s investigations relating to the tax of companies in each of the last six years.
Mr David Gauke
Until 31 March 2014, HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) Large Business Service (LBS) dealt with the tax affairs of around 800 of the largest businesses in the UK. From 1 April 2014 HMRC’s Large Business directorate (LB) deals with the tax affairs of around 2,000 large businesses.
At 31 December 2015, the number of staff deployed in LB was 2,600.
At year end (31 March), the number of staff deployed in previous years was:
LB
2014-15 2,350
LBS
2013-14 1,303
2012-13 1,194
2011-12 1,306
2010-11 1,438
These staff are supplemented by specialists in other parts of HMRC. It is not possible to say how many staff were deployed on each investigation.