HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was formed in April 2005 from the two former revenue departments, Inland Revenue (IR) and HM Customs and Excise (HMCE), in order to achieve synergies and efficiencies through modernisation of its business operations and rationalisation of its estate.
Information on how many HMRC offices have been closed in each parliamentary constituency from 1997 to March 2001 would be available only at disproportionate cost. Details of how many HMRC offices, and previously IR and HMCE offices, that have been closed in each parliamentary constituency since April 2001 has been deposited in the Library of the House. The relevant parliamentary constituency information could not be identified for five early closures as the historic information held could not be matched to constituency parameters.