§ Lord Gladwin of Cleeasked Her Majesty's Government:
What are their proposals for the amalgamations of divisions of the General Commissioners of Income Tax in Cleveland and North Yorkshire. [HL5996]
§ The Lord Chancellor (Lord Irvine of Lairg)On 1 October 2002, I made an order under section 2(6) of the Taxes Management Act 1970 amalgamating divisions in both North Yorkshire and Cleveland as follows. The Hartlepool and Stockton divisions shall be merged into one new division to be called Hartlepool with Stockton; and the Teesside South and Langbaurgh divisions shall be merged into a new division called Teesside South with Langbaurgh. The amalgamation was made at the request of the General Commissioners in all of the divisions with the aim of improving the organisational efficiency of the divisions in the counties of Cleveland and North Yorkshire. I have placed a copy of the order amalgamating the divisions in the Library of this House.