To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much HM Revenue and Customs (a) has spent under each cost heading in each year since 2010-11 and (b) expects to spend under each cost heading in each year between 2013-14 and 2015-16.

The information is as follows:

(a) The costs HMRC incurs are shown in the notes to the departmental resource accounts within HMRC's annual report and accounts.

Links to the accounts are provided as follows:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/about/annual-report-accounts-1011.pdf

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/about/annual-report-accounts-1112.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2012-13--3

(b) HMRC is currently reviewing its plans for 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 as part of its current planning round. It is not possible therefore to breakdown in a more granular form the budgets for 2014-15 and 2015-16.

HMRC's budgets for 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 are:

Broadly HMRC expects the staffing costs to reduce and the IT costs to increase, in line with its digital programme, within its overall reductions.