HC Deb 19 December 1988 vol 144 cc25-6W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what, further to his reply of 28 November,Official Report, columns 105-7, is the ratio of staff directly dealing with tax fraud and evasion to the detection to such frauds and evasion for each year since 1975.

Mr. Norman Lamont

[holding answer 12 December 1988]: The ratio of full-time staff units employed in investigating tax fraud and evasion to completed Inland Revenue investigations resulting in additional liability in each year since 1980 is as follows, together with the average amount recovered—tax, interest and penalties—per staff unit over the same period.

duties and that the ill health is likely to be permanent. Almost 60 per cent. of those retired on health grounds were aged 55 and over.

Forward to