§ Mr. Jannerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he last carried out an analysis of information required for sex monitoring of the Departments for which he is responsible.
§ Mr. Hayhoe[pursuant to his reply, 6 February 1984, c. 437]The Inland Revenue and Department for National Savings participated in the joint review group study of equal opportunites for women in the Civil Service, and the Treasury has carried out its own departmental study on this subject. These Departments carry out selective analyses of promotion rates for men and women on a continuing basis and are also involved with other aspects of equal opportunities research, such as the relative career progress of men and women and variations in annual report markings. In addition, my Departments are required to notify Cabinet Office — Management and Personnel Office—of complaints under the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts and to provide details of single sex posts which are then analysed centrally. In future all my Departments will, of course, be involved with the departmental monitoring arrangements for data on equal opportunities which form part of the programme of action to follow up the joint review group report.
Financial Year Nature of offence 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 False accounts and returns of income, etc. 13 37 39 38 36 14 False claims to personal allowances, deductions for expenses, repayments etc. 5 30 21 28 14 8 PAYE offences by employers and their staff 14 11 18 19 16 24 Subcontractor exemption certificate frauds 139 110 72 103 109 96 (c) It is not possible without incurring an undue cost to itemise the individual sums of money involved, but the average amount of value added tax evaded for which proceedings were taken in 1977–78 to 1982–83 is included in the table.
Year ending 31 March
Number of cases
Total arrears £
Average arrears £
1977–78 142 1,374,470 9,679 1978–79 107 1,495,897 13,980 1979–80 95 1,180,781 12,429 1980–81 100 1,652,800 16,528 1981–82 98 2,507,419 25,585 1982–83 124 3,591,259 28,962 (d) There have been no prosecutions.