Speeches

Pamela Nash – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many IR35 status enquiries HM Revenue and Customs has made in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Mr David Gauke

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) carries out IR35 status enquiries by way of compliance interventions. The table below shows the number of interventions up to 2013/14. Regional data is not produced by HMRC.

Year

Compliance interventions

2009/10

12

2010/11

23

2011/12

59

2012/13

256

2013/14

192