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Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services |
| Question ID: |
1811369 |
| UIN: |
HL8288 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-10 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4689 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Agnew of Oulton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Agnew of Oulton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government, based on average hourly earnings, what was the estimated total financial cost incurred by taxpayers because of call waiting times for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs customer helplines in each of the past four financial |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-25 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4559 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Lord Livermore
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Livermore
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| Answer text: |
HMRC publishes its call waiting times here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-monthly-performance-reports Last year, HMRC received extra funding to deploy additional customer service advisers. They are also investing in new technology which w... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |