§ Mr. LawsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many Inland Revenue local tax offices there are; what their running costs were in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [156760]
§ Dawn PrimaroloThe Inland Revenue has approximately 350 local Tax Offices. However many are located in multi-occupied buildings with other Revenue Offices. For example, a building might house a Tax Office but it could also house a Contact Centre, Tax Enquiry Point, Working Families Tax Credit Office etc.822W It would therefore require a disproportionate amount of effort to manually extract and disaggregate the running costs attributable to local Tax Offices.