Revenue and Customs: Dismissal

(asked on 25th October 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Stuart C McDonald Portrait
Stuart C McDonald
(Scottish National Party - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many HM Revenue and Customs' staff have been dismissed in each year since 2006; and what proportion of those staff were disabled.

Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 2nd November 2016

The table below shows all dismissals from 1 April 2006 and the number of people dismissed who have recorded their disability status as disabled and non-disabled.

Year

Total No. Of Dismissals

Recorded Disabled status

Not Recorded Disabled status

2006/07

150

0

150

2007/08

386

10

376

2008/09

457

33

424

2009/10

530

74

456

2010/11

467

94

373

2011/12

511

84

427

2012/13

510

100

410

2013/14

449

83

366

2014/15

346

63

283

2015/16

522

88

434

2016/17

235

37

198

All Years Total

4,563

666

1,242

HM Revenue and Customs runs regular educational campaigns to encourage people to declare their disability status. For the Department as a whole, the disability declaration rate has increased from 5.4% in 2006 to 60.4% in 2016. As at 30 September 2016, 14.82% of the Department have recorded themselves as disabled.

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