Business of the House

Alan Brown Excerpts
Thursday 22nd November 2018

(5 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrea Leadsom Portrait Andrea Leadsom
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I am genuinely sorry to hear of the hon. Gentleman’s concern about his constituency. We shall have health questions next week, and I encourage him to raise it directly with Ministers then.

Alan Brown Portrait Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)
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Although my constituent Jean Allardyce of Bridgend Garage in Auchinleck always pays her PAYE and national insurance contributions on time, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs often sends her debt-chasing letters, the most recent of which was dated more than a week after she had made the payments. This causes her stress. She has to take valuable business time out to make checks, and HMRC then has to make further checks. May we have a Government statement about simple reforms that HMRC can make in order to tackle the real culprits?

Andrea Leadsom Portrait Andrea Leadsom
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The hon. Gentleman has raised an important point about wasted administrative processes. I encourage him to raise it in a written parliamentary question to Ministers so that they can consider his suggestion.