Question follow-through · 68690

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help make the HM Revenue and Customs helpline more accessible to customers.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
22 Jul 2025
Answer
22 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help make the HM Revenue and Customs helpline more accessible to customers.

  2. 22 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    HMRC publish monthly performance data, including information on their telephony service, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-monthly-performance-reports.Improving day-to-day performance is one of the Government’s key pr...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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