Does not new clause 13 expose the idiocy of closing HMRC offices, as the Government are planning to do to 90% of them? Would it not also allow Members to look at the number of staff in HMRC dealing with tax avoidance and set that against the 3,765 staff in the Department for Work and Pensions who deal with £1.2 billion of so-called social security fraud?
Finance Bill
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Chris Stephens
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 5 September 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance Bill.
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