Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alex Chalk and Nigel Mills

Tuesday 17th April 2018 Commons Chamber

[Alex Chalk (Cheltenham) (Con)]

1. What progress has been made on reducing tax avoidance and evasion.

[Nigel Mills (Amber Valley) (Con)]

8. What progress has been made on reducing tax avoidance and evasion.

[The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Philip Hammond)]

Since 2010, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has secured more than £175 billion that would have gone unpaid and introduced more than 100 new measures to crack down on tax avoidance, tax evasion and other forms of non-compliance, so that the tax gap is now at a record low, and one of the lowest in the world, at 6%.