Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation

(asked on 18th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 7 March 2018, Official Report, column 428, what estimate he has made of the savings to the public purse up to 2025 as a result of the HMRC Building our Future programme.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 26th October 2018

HMRC wants to keep as many employees as possible as it moves to its regional centres. It has been clear that if someone can move to a regional centre and has the skills it needs or is able to develop them, there will be a role for them.

In 2015, planning indicated that up to 90% of its workforce across the UK at that time would either work in a regional centre or see out their career in an HMRC office.

In East Kilbride, updated planning data shows that around 75% of staff in Plaza Tower and 80% in Queensway House, East Kilbride, will move to the Glasgow Regional Centre or see out their career in an HMRC office. In East Kilbride data indicates that 33% of staff in Plaza Tower and 43% in Queensway House are over 50 years of age.

By the time all its regional centres have opened, HMRC still expects the figures to be near its original forecast.

HMRC will not know the actual position until one-to-one discussions have taken place with staff which will establish whether an individual can or cannot move.

Moving to regional centres will save around £300 million by 2025. It also avoids potential additional costs of £75 million per annum from 2021, when the current contract with Mapeley come to an end.

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