§ Mr. Joel Barnettasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the debt-collecting activities of Her Majesty's Collector of Taxes, with particular reference to staff training and the methods adopted of making personal calls on taxpayers.
§ Mr. NottIt is the duty of a Collector of Taxes to secure the earliest possible payment, with the minimum amount of friction, of the taxes which are in his charge to collect. All his training, both centrally and in the local office, emphasises these principles; and when it is necessary to make a personal call upon a taxpayer, for example in the absence of response to written applications, he should conduct himself in accordance with them.