Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 10 March 2015.
Danny Alexander
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury
11:30,
10 March 2015
I am confident that the resource being applied at the HMRC end of the spectrum is sufficient to ensure that we can deliver the devolution that is planned. That process is going on at present. Stamp duty devolution starts in April this year and income tax devolution the following April. As to whether or not the Scottish Government are applying sufficient resource, effort or people to make sure that the tax system will be competently administered, that is a question for them to answer. I recently signed off the orders to devolve stamp duty, and they will now need to make sure that that is done properly.