To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average cost of employing each member of staff in the compliance department of HM Revenue and Customs was in the last financial year. (222615)

The latest available cost figures are for 2006-07. In this year the average cost per member of compliance staff¹ was £37,600.

¹ Included are Local Compliance, National Teams and Special Civil Investigations, Stamps Tax, Charity Assets and Residence and Large Business Service.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average yield produced by each member of staff in the compliance department at HM Revenue and Customs was in the last financial year. (222616)

The latest available yield figures are for 2006-07. In this year the average yield per member of compliance staff¹ was around £680,000.

¹ Included are Local Compliance, National Teams and Special Civil Investigations, Stamps Tax, Charity Assets and Residence and Large Business Service.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many tax payers resident in Scotland are attached to Inland Revenue Centre 1, Glasgow; (224308)

Information on taxpayer numbers is available on the HM Revenue and Customs website at:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/income tax/menu.htm

The total number of taxpayers is shown in Table 2.1: ‘Number of individual income taxpayers’. Estimates of the number of taxpayers resident in Scotland can be found in Table 2:2 ‘Number of individual income taxpayers by country and region’.