Department for Work and Pensions and Revenue and Customs: Public Expenditure
(asked on 16th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) budgets and (b) returns were from the compliance units of (a) HMRC and (b) the Department for Work and Pensions for each year between 2015 and 2021 inclusive.
For HMRC, the value of compliance work goes beyond generating yield, and also includes mitigating harm, ensuring a level playing field for those who pay their taxes correctly, and deterring non-compliance from taking place.
In this context, there are some indicative figures HMRC can provide to give a sense of scale. In the financial year 2020-21, HMRC delivered a total of £30.4 billion of compliance yield with an expenditure of £1,166.5 million on the Customer Compliance Group (CCG). CCG brings in the majority, but not all, compliance yield. Equivalent figures for CCG from 2016-17 (the first year of CCG reporting following an internal reorganisation) are provided in the table below. Equivalent figures for before 2016-17 are not readily available and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.
Year | Compliance yield (£billion) | Cost (£million) |
2016-17 | £28.9 | £1,040.8 |
2017-18 | £30.3 | £1,139.2 |
2018-19 | £34.1 | £1,127.7 |
2019-20 | £36.9 | £1,192.2 |
2020-21 | £30.4 | £1,166.5 |
The information requested on the Department for Work and Pensions Compliance is not readily available and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.