HC Deb 29 June 1993 vol 227 cc452-3W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cases of evasion of payments of(a) income tax and (b) other tax evasion have been discovered in each of the last five years; and what has been the value of the revenue recovered.

Mr. Dorrell

The information requested is as follows:

Income tax investigations Other investigations Yield from counter-evasion work (£ million)
1988–89 52,894 12,032 706
1989–90 57,997 12,551 933
1990–91 61,755 13,219 1,091
1991–92 59,993 14,421 1,324
1992–93 55,611 12,952 1,361