§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people were discovered to have tried to defraud the Inland Revenue in each year since 1975; how much was recovered in each of these years; and how much was received in fines and interest payments;
(2) what was the total underpayment of tax or fraud discovered by the Inland Revenue in each year since 1975; and how much it is estimated was not discovered in these years.
§ Mr. Ridley[pursuant to his reply, 1 April 1982, c. 162–63]: The number of investigation settlements and the amounts recovered by way of back taxes, interest and penalties are shown in the table below. It is not possible to estimate the tax lost through undetected evasion.
§ Mr. Adam ButlerThe panel's findings were that the conditions of service for staff in the Northern Ireland training executive and industrial training boards should be modified to provide new terms of compensation. The function of the panel is to interpret agreed conditions of service. By proposing modifications it was operating outside its jurisdiction. In addition, in 1980 the industrial court rejected a claim, made under schedule 3 to the Industrial Relations (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, that conditions of service, comparable to those of civil servants, should be applied to the staff of the Northern Ireland training executive and the industrial training boards.
The Government consider that, following their declared policy, the redundancy arrangements under which the staff were recruited and employed are those which should apply.