HM Revenue and Customs

Type
Internal restructuring
Country
United Kingdom
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Sunderland, Durham, Newcastle, Teesside, Northumberland, Londonderry
Sector
Public Administration / Defence
84 - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
84.1 - Administration of the State and the economic, social and environmental policies of the community
84.12 - Regulation of health care, education, cultural services and other social services
1,500 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
17 November 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2007
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009

Description

Hundreds of civil servant jobs in the North East are under threat in a Government shake-up of tax offices. Around 1,500 revenue and customs jobs will go by 2010 in an attempt to cut costs, according to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCSU). These include 900 in Sunderland, Durham and Newcastle; 300 on Teesside, and a further 300 in rural Northumberland.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) said consultations on the service would begin in the region in February 2007.

Tony Jarvis, regional secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union said that the job losses would lead to poorer services for tax payers and those receiving tax credits. He predicted that the closure of what is anticipated to be 200 tax offices would lead to more paperwork and the opening of more call centres.

But Paul Gray, acting chairman of HMRC, said the service needed to be made more cost-effective by co-ordinating work in fewer buildings.

Sources

  • 17 November 2006: BBC Website

Citation

Eurofound (2006), HM Revenue and Customs, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64463, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64463.