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Estimates day on Wednesday, 2 March 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Tyrie. The answering member was David Gauke.
HM Revenue and Customs. Estimates 2010-11. Second estimates day (part 2). Question deferred. Resolved at c400-1. [Relevant documents: The uncorrected oral evidence taken by the Treasury Sub-committee on 19 January, HC 731-i, and 8 February, HC 731-ii; the oral evidence taken by the Treasury Committee on 15 September 2010, HC 479; the Seventh Report from the Treasury Committee, Session 2009-10, Administration and Expenditure of the Chancellor's Departments, 2008-09, HC 156, and the Government response, Cm 7917; and the Eighth Report from the Treasury Committee, Session 2006-07, The Efficiency Programme in the Chancellor's Departments, HC 483, and the Government response, First Special Report from the Treasury Committee, Session 2007-08, HC 62.]
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524 c365-401 
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2010-12
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Proceeding contributions
George Mudie | 524 c370-1 (Link to this contribution) That is a well accepted fact. To be fair, the £900 million is an acceptance of what my hon. Friend s...
George Mudie | 524 c370 (Link to this contribution) They probably are, but the report that I am quoting is a couple of years old. The other thing that ...

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Tony Cunningham | 524 c370 (Link to this contribution) I am hearing rumours that some people threatened with redundancy are earning £20,000 to £25,000 a ye...
Andrea Leadsom | 524 c365 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Treasury Committee has heard much evidence from representatives o...
Lord Tyrie | 524 c365 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the request of the Select Committee on the Treasury to hold this debate on HMRC's est...
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 524 c370 (Link to this contribution) The latest figure from HMRC is that complaints have gone up by 33% in the last two years, so the hon...
George Mudie | 524 c369-70 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr Tyrie) for his kind remarks. When Lord McFall left the Tr...
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 524 c366 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that HMRC is going to write off all open cases from 2007-08, which equate to...
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 524 c379 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Revenue has just been fined £1.6 million for sloppy data handli...
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 524 c376 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that 194 million national insurance accounts are not rectifiable even though...
Ian Swales | 524 c376-7 (Link to this contribution) Judging by the evidence that the PAC received, there seems to be a lack of control over the trail of...
Gregg McClymont | 524 c377 (Link to this contribution) We are discussing the administration of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, and I should declare a co...
Kelvin Hopkins | 524 c377 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that every additional tax officer collects many times their own salary, and that ...
Gregg McClymont | 524 c377-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. There is a problem of short-term savings at the cost of long-term...
Jim Shannon | 524 c378 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, like many others in the Chamber, was at the presentation to Members of Parliamen...
Gregg McClymont | 524 c378 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that observation. Clearly, this is a complex issue and there will be ...
Andrew Love | 524 c378 (Link to this contribution) I want to make an observation based on a recent conversation I had with a tax expert. When the Gover...
Gregg McClymont | 524 c378-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that information. As a member of the Treasury Committee, he is well known...
Ian Swales | 524 c376 (Link to this contribution) I can express a personal opinion, which relates to what I was just saying: we should not judge effic...
David Ruffley | 524 c376 (Link to this contribution) Given his experience on the Public Accounts Committee, what is my hon. Friend's view of HMRC's claim...
George Mudie | 524 c372 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that you stopped the hon. Gentleman, Mr Deputy Speaker, because his was a better speech t...
Ian Liddell-Grainger | 524 c372 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is well aware that the two companies charged with this task by the Government, Ca...
Guto Bebb | 524 c371-2 (Link to this contribution) The closure of tax offices is an important issue in north Wales. I hate to be parochial, but I repre...
Speaker | 524 c372 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must have short interventions.
George Mudie | 524 c373-4 (Link to this contribution) Well, I did withdraw it; I said I will not use the phrase ““Sod it.”” I have made points about mana...
Ian Swales | 524 c374-6 (Link to this contribution) I speak as a member of the Public Accounts Committee, which has held a number of hearings with Her M...
George Mudie | 524 c372-3 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting point. I am using up time rapidly, but let me mention in passing another fea...
Speaker | 524 c373 (Link to this contribution) Order. We cannot say ““Sod it.”” I am sure the hon. Gentleman will withdraw that.
Andrew Love | 524 c383 (Link to this contribution) I want to take up the point made by the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr Tyrie) about the shift in com...
Priti Patel | 524 c383-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not, actually. Many other measures came out of the comprehensive spending review and last year'...
Charlie Elphicke | 524 c384 (Link to this contribution) When my hon. Friend takes up cases with HMRC, does she find that they are suddenly sorted out extrao...
Kelvin Hopkins | 524 c386 (Link to this contribution) I agree strongly with my hon. Friend. Together with the cuts in staffing, which have put extra press...
John McDonnell | 524 c386-7 (Link to this contribution) We once prided ourselves on an effective and efficient tax delivery service through tax collection, ...
Priti Patel | 524 c384-5 (Link to this contribution) I wish that the answer was yes, but unfortunately it is no. As with all large organisations, I am st...
Ian Swales | 524 c386 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that a walk-in centre that is open only a couple of days a week and st...
John McDonnell | 524 c386 (Link to this contribution) Yes. In recent years and from the time of the initial legislation, there has been almost a Dutch auc...
Gregg McClymont | 524 c379-80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. My suspicion is that it will be a combination of all three. I...
Jesse Norman | 524 c380 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about the importance of morale at HMRC. As we discovered from...
Gregg McClymont | 524 c381-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I am not able to give him a definitive answer, but...
Priti Patel | 524 c382-3 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to discuss the work of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. I pay tribute to...
Gregg McClymont | 524 c381 (Link to this contribution) Now that the hon. Gentleman has provided that important point of information, I will conclude with a...
David Ruffley | 524 c381 (Link to this contribution) The return from the autumn survey of civil service staff at HMRC says that 14% think that the organi...
Gregg McClymont | 524 c381 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. If we do indeed have an organisation that is dysfunctional, t...
Jesse Norman | 524 c381 (Link to this contribution) I have a simple point of information for the House, which is that my constituency is Hereford and So...
Gregg McClymont | 524 c380-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his observations. I was very interested in what the hon. Member for C...
David Gauke | 524 c399-400 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is right for us to put that point on the record. On PAYE...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 524 c399 (Link to this contribution) I wholly support what the Minister is saying. It strikes me that what HMRC staff need most is to fee...
Speaker | 524 c394 (Link to this contribution) The wind-ups will begin at 6.40 pm.
Lord Hanson of Flint | 524 c396-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank right hon. and hon. Members across the Chamber for their contributions to the debate, partic...
Mark Durkan | 524 c394-6 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman), who made...
David Gauke | 524 c398-9 (Link to this contribution) We have had a valuable debate, and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester (Mr Tyrie...
Jesse Norman | 524 c392-3 (Link to this contribution) I speak in this important debate both as a member of the Treasury Committee and on behalf of my cons...
Kelvin Hopkins | 524 c391-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak very briefly. I agree with much of what was said by the hon. Member for Dover (Charli...
Charlie Elphicke | 524 c391 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I believe that the Exchequer Secretary is a very fine Minister who will, in time, become on...
Nick de Bois | 524 c391 (Link to this contribution) From ““ghastly”” to ““poor””.
Jesse Norman | 524 c393-4 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware of that and I thank my hon. Friend for his remark. Of course, historically, Welsh sp...
Guto Bebb | 524 c393 (Link to this contribution) On IT systems and call centres, is my hon. Friend aware that the current system is not compliant wit...
Charlie Elphicke | 524 c388-91 (Link to this contribution) This is an important debate, because the evidence shows that businesses and people do better when ta...
Charlie Elphicke | 524 c388 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that everyone should pay their fair share of tax, but I strongly dis...
John McDonnell | 524 c387-8 (Link to this contribution) I fully agree, and we have painted a picture this afternoon of the impact of a combination of job re...
Lord Tyrie | 524 c365-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree completely, and the next sentence of what I intended to say was to be along the lines of ask...
Lord Tyrie | 524 c366-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a point that I was intending to make, and he makes it very fully. Because I wan...
Kelvin Hopkins | 524 c387 (Link to this contribution) One feature of privatisation and the call centre culture is that it destroys the public service etho...
Andrew Love | 524 c381 (Link to this contribution) Taking on board the point just made by the hon. Member for Hertfordshire, should that not be a furth...
John McDonnell | 524 c388 (Link to this contribution) Jobs would be more protected if companies and rich people paid their taxes. If there is £120 billion...
John McDonnell | 524 c385-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Witham (Priti Patel) on her creativity in using an estimates deba...
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