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.

answeredTreasury

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Treasury
Tabled
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
24 Nov 2025
Answer
26 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 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.

  2. 24 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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 ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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