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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Jeremy Lefroy Excerpts
Tuesday 16th January 2018

(6 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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As the right hon. Gentleman will know, the Late, Missing and Incorrect initiative is there to drive up the accuracy of the real-time information as it passes between employers and HMRC. As he stresses, it is important to ensuring that universal credit is rolled out effectively. On his specific question about statistics, we believe that the level is around 5% or 6% across those three areas. We are continuously driving down those figures, particularly in response to the post-implementation review.

Jeremy Lefroy Portrait Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)
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The European Free Trade Association, of which the UK was a founder member, would provide an excellent framework from within which to exercise a deep and special partnership with the EU. Would Her Majesty’s Government consider that as a sound way forward?