§ Mr. John Browneasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information from computer files outside the Inland Revenue will be used for setting up the PAYE computer system.
§ Mr. MooreIn reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Irving) on 24 March 1982, at columns189–90, it was announced that the Inland Revenue would utilise basic information—name, address, date of birth, title—from the Department of Health and Social Security records in order to avoid the substantial and expensive task of keying in that information from its own paper records. That process is continuing. In the case of taxpayers dealt with by some Government Departments and other employers with established computerised payrolls, it may be possible for the Inland Revenue to obtain the information directly. The employer is likely to have the most up-to-date information, for example, on the employee's address. In these circumstances, where the employer is willing to supply computer tapes containing the employee's address, together with the other basic information referred to, the Inland Revenue proposes to use that source rather than the Department of Health and Social Security exchange.