Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) headcount and (b) full-time equivalent number of staff employed in HMRC’s Large Business Directorate in each year between 2014-15 and 2019-20.

The full-time equivalent number of staff working for HMRC’s Large Business Directorate was as follows:

The Large Business Directorate manages the tax compliance of the UK’s 2,000 largest and most complex businesses through a Customer Compliance Manager (CCM) model. CCMs are highly trained specialists, who lead teams of highly skilled tax professionals and other specialists to scrutinise these most complex and potentially high-risk business customers.

HMRC deploy their Large Business Directorate teams flexibly and their compliance professionals are likely to work on a number of different customer enquiries and tax issues at any one time. It is therefore not possible to say how many staff work on each individual Large Business Directorate enquiry.