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Written question asked by Rachel Reeves (Labour) on Friday, 2 December 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 7 December 2022 (named day). It was answered by Victoria Atkins (Conservative) on Wednesday, 7 December 2022 on behalf of the Treasury.

Taxpayer Protection Taskforce: Staff

Question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people worked for the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce in each month between April 2021 and December 2022.

Answer

At Spring Budget 2021 the Government announced a £100 million investment into the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce of 1,250 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff up to March 2023. The taskforce was established to extend HMRC’s work to address fraud and error in the COVID support schemes that they administered (Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, and Eat Out to Help Out). The table below shows the month-by-month breakdown of resources deployed in the taskforce from April 2021 to end of October 2022. HMRC are unable to provide more recent data as this is still being assured.

Table 1: Monthly breakdown of FTE staff deployed to taskforce:

Period

Apr 2021

May 2021

Jun 2021

Jul 2021

Aug 2021

Sep 2021

Oct 2021

Nov 2021

Dec 2021

Jan 2022

Feb 2022

Mar 2022

Total FTE

908

1,018

1,216

1,291

1,228

1,256

1,180

1,184

1,145

1,101

1,096

1,142

Period

Apr 2022

May 2022

Jun 2022

Jul 2022

Aug 2022

Sep 2022

Oct 2022

Total FTE

1,180

1,155

1,246

1,203

1,230

1,232

1,187

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
101713
Session
2022-23
Subjects
Staff Taxpayer Protection Taskforce
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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