Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Statement of 25 November 2015, Official Report, column 1361, if he will place in the Library an itemised breakdown of to which HM Revenue and Customs’ projects and programmes he has allocated the additional £800 million announced in that statement.

Mr David Gauke

Autumn Statement 2015 referenced £800 million allocated to HM Revenue and Customs at Summer Budget 2015 to tackle evasion and non-compliance.

The £800 million will fund the following projects:

• Tax Credit Debt Recovery

• Criminal Investigations

• Wealthy: enhanced compliance

• Tackling the hidden economy

• Additional Compliance Resource: local compliance

• Tackling illicit tobacco and alcohol

• Large Business: enhanced compliance

• Specialist Personal Tax: enhanced compliance