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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Revenue and Customs: Debt Collection (15 December 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money has been recovered by debt collection companies contracted by HMRC since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

Answer

Since March 2020, private sector debt collection agencies have collected £321 million on behalf of HMRC. To put that into context, HMRC have collected £38.7 billion of debt in total in the period from April to November 2020.


Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
11 January 2021

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