Question follow-through · 92887
Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many telephone operators work on the HMRC self-assessment line by the nationality of those operators.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many telephone operators work on the HMRC self-assessment line by the nationality of those operators.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
HMRC does not have information readily available identifying the nationality of staff working on specific telephone enquiry lines. Obtaining this information would require a manual process which would exceed the cost threshold for answering parliamentary ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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