Revenue and Customs and Valuation Office Agency: Civil Servants
(asked on 14th October 2024) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many civil servants are assigned to work in each of (a) HMRC’s and (b) the Valuation Office Agency offices; and how many desks are available in each office.
The table below sets out HMRC’s headcount and workspaces by location for September 2024.
Table 1: HMRC Locations – Headcount and workspaces for September 2024
Location | Headcount | Workspaces |
100PS | 955 | 516 |
Belfast | 2,208 | 1,030 |
Birmingham | 3,372 | 1,610 |
Bradford | 1,193 | 804 |
Bristol | 1,262 | 820 |
Cardiff | 4,208 | 2,281 |
Croydon | 2,555 | 1,469 |
Dover | 196 | 155 |
East Kilbride | 1,911 | 1,269 |
Edinburgh | 1,940 | 1,426 |
Gartcosh | 283 | 238 |
Glasgow | 2,872 | 1,447 |
Ipswich | 451 | 268 |
Leeds | 3,782 | 1,817 |
Liverpool | 5,596 | 2,753 |
Manchester | 6,014 | 3,214 |
Newcastle | 8,056 | 5,565 |
Nottingham | 4,061 | 1,855 |
Portsmouth | 994 | 913 |
Preston | 1,419 | 804 |
Reading | 101 | 78 |
Stratford | 5,112 | 2,717 |
Swansea | 127 | 140 |
Telford | 1,059 | 565 |
Washington | 2,135 | 1,944 |
Worthing | 587 | 712 |
Total | 62,449 | 36,410 |
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) is an executive agency of HMRC and has 35 offices nationally (England, Scotland and Wales). Table 2 shows VOA’s Headcount and workspaces for September 2024
Table 2 VOA Locations – Headcount and workspaces for September 2024
Location | Headcount | Workspaces |
Aberdeen | 4 | 5 |
Birmingham | 170 | 84 |
Bristol | 102 | 60 |
Cambridge | 38 | 30 |
Canary Wharf Hub | 325 | 212 |
Cardiff | 111 | 60 |
Carmarthen | 22 | 14 |
Colchester | 56 | 54 |
Croydon | 177 | 86 |
Durham | 409 | 360 |
Eastbourne | 42 | 42 |
Edinburgh | 20 | 8 |
Exeter | 44 | 30 |
Folkestone | 26 | 32 |
Glasgow | 18 | 15 |
Hull | 54 | 50 |
Inverness | 5 | 6 |
Lancaster | 14 | 16 |
Leeds | 273 | 162 |
Liverpool | 150 | 70 |
Manchester | 180 | 84 |
Newcastle | 233 | 104 |
Norwich | 41 | 52 |
Nottingham | 127 | 80 |
Oxford | 34 | 24 |
Plymouth | 437 | 322 |
Preston | 53 | 30 |
Sheffield | 53 | 30 |
Southampton | 58 | 60 |
St Austell | 17 | 24 |
Stoke-On-Trent | 67 | 52 |
Swansea | 71 | 24 |
Wembley | 113 | 67 |
Worthing Digital Centre | 2 | 3 |
Wrexham | 51 | 24 |
Total | 3,597 | 2,376 |
Our offices have different types of workspaces which allow people to match the task to the most suitable space. We therefore use workspaces rather than the number of desks.