PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Taxpayer Protection Taskforce (28 January 2022)
Question Asked
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full-time equivalent staff the taxpayer protection taskforce has.
Asked by:
James Murray (Labour)
Asked by:
James Murray (Labour)
Answer
At Spring Budget 2021, the Government announced a £100 million investment into a Taxpayer Protection Taskforce to significantly extend HMRC’s work to tackle fraud and error in the COVID support schemes that HMRC administered (Self Employment Income Support Scheme, Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Eat Out to Help Out). This investment has funded 1,265 Full Time Equivalent staff for over the two years to 31 March 2023.
Answered by:
Lucy Frazer (Conservative)
2 February 2022
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