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HMRC Closures

Proceeding contribution from Mel Stride (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 2 November 2017. It occurred during Backbench debate on HMRC Closures.

I do not accept that point. We could take it to its logical conclusion and assume that everyone could work from home, and we could then have a very disparate workforce. There may be some attractions to that, but there is huge value in bringing people together in a single building, where there is a critical mass of individuals: collaborative working and the sharing of experience and ideas can take place, meetings can be held, and the technology is all in one place. I would have thought the hon. Gentleman would recognise that. Let us face it: if we went back to 2005, we might be debating whether we should shrink the number of offices from 600, which is what it was at that point. There will always

be arguments about whether we should do things and the local impacts and so on, but this overarching direction of travel, it seems to me, has to be right.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
630 c458WH 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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