HMRC completes Accommodation Reviews of cluster and individual locations in East Midlands, North East, South East and West Midlands

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is today (Thursday 17 July 2008) publishing the outcomes of a review of HMRC office accommodation housing around 7,500 staff outside its urban centres in the East Midlands, North East, South East and West Midlands Regions.

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Jane Kennedy, in a Written Ministerial Statement today said that:

'These decisions are the latest to emerge from a nationwide series of reviews started in 2006 and designed to create the future shape of the Department. HMRC has engaged widely with Trade Unions, MPs, Local Authorities and a range of customer groups as well as with their own employees.

These have not been easy decisions. However, the overriding consideration has to be the Department’s need to address new and challenging customer demands by restructuring its business and estate in the most effective and efficient way possible.'

Between now and 2011 HMRC plans to withdraw from locations as circumstances allow and at a pace which enables it to maintain and improve customer services.

All enquiry centres where customers can walk into an office and ask for assistance will remain in their current location or nearby.

Decisions in East Midlands
Decisions in North East
Decisions in South East
Decisions in West Midlands