Revenue and Customs: Racial Discrimination

(asked on 15th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints there have been of racist behaviour in the workplace in HMRC in each of the last five years, by directorate.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 22nd December 2020
Since 2016 there have been 38 complaints categorised under race, detailed below.

Year

Formal Complaints recorded under race category

2016

5

2017

6

2018

6

2019

11

2020 (to date)

10

Release of these figures by directorate would breach HMRC’s statutory obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation, as it could lead to identification of the individuals concerned.

The figures provided are for formal complaints recorded under the ‘race’ category. It is possible that other complaints may have included a racial element, but if that was not deemed the primary reason for the complaint it could have been recorded under a different category.

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