Treasury written question – answered at on 25 February 2014.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were employed by HM Revenue and Customs to work in the Large Business Service in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2013-14 to date.
HMRC's Large Business Service deals with the tax affairs of the 800 or so largest businesses in the UK. HMRC's approach has enabled it to recover over £16 billion in additional compliance revenues from large businesses dealt with by Large Business Service between April 2010 and March 2013, as follows:
Additional compliance revenues recovered (£ billion) | |
2010-11 | 5.74 |
2011-12 | 5.04 |
2012-13 | 5.28 |
The numbers of people employed by HMRC to work in the Large Business Service at each year end and currently are:
31 March | Number of people employed in Large Business Service | Equivalent to full-time posts |
2011 | 1,438 | 1,353 |
2012 | 1,306 | 1,212 |
2013 | 1,194 | 1,095 |
The Large Business Service also calls on the services of specialist staff employed in other units in HMRC when dealing with the tax affairs of the large businesses for which it is responsible.
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