Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide information on the average (a) headcount and (b) full time equivalent number of staff working on each active enquiry undertaken by HMRC’s Large Business Directorate in each year between 2014-15 to 2019-20.
The full-time equivalent number of staff working for HMRC’s Large Business Directorate was as follows:
31 March 2015 | 2,022 |
31 March 2016 | 2,137 |
31 March 2017 | 2,392 |
31 March 2018 | 2,338 |
31 March 2019 | 2,367 |
31 March 2020 | 2,395 |
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.