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Revenue and Customs

Volume 502: debated on Monday 7 December 2009

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what improvement programmes were in operation at HM Revenue and Customs in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) 2009; how much each has cost; how much each programme has spent on external consultants; and which official of HM Revenue and Customs had oversight of each programme. (303066)

Since 2006, HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) major change and improvement programmes have been delivered through the Department’s investment portfolio known as the ‘Departmental Transformation Programme’. Total expenditure, including consultancy, on these programmes is set out in the table.

The successful delivery of a change portfolio of the scale and complexity of HMRC’s Departmental Transformation Programme depends critically on suitably skilled project management personnel as well as specialists in niche areas, e.g. data security and commercial banking. Where HMRC staff with the necessary skills and experience are not available, the Department will employ, through its commercial frameworks, external contractors and consultants to ensure successful programme delivery.

£ million

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10 (forecast at November 2009)

Programmes

Total

Consultancy

Total

Consultancy

Total

Consultancy

Total

Consultancy

Agents and Employers

1.2

0.5

Business Intelligence

40.0

0.6

Business.gov

21.0

35.4

35.8

Capability Review

3.5

3.2

0.7

0.5

Carter (previously Online Services)

23.0

6.3

84.7

0.9

89.2

0.7

74.2

1.0

Compliance and Enforcement

71.9

13.8

59.3

8.0

87.3

6.1

67.1

1.8

Compliance and Enforcement—Debt Management

6.4

Construction Industry Scheme

34.0

1.0

6.8

0.2

0.6

Customer Contact

43.0

9.8

3.8

0.7

Customer Foundations

6.0

3.5

Customer Interactions

8.7

4.2

Customs Service Transformation

5.0

2.4

13.9

2.5

25.3

2.9

25.4

1.6

Data Quality

12.0

7.6

Data Security

43.9

2.1

18.7

1.7

Direct Debits

3.4

Enterprise Infrastructure/Disaster Recovery

19.0

0.2

8.5

0.9

19.2

1.1

ERP Shared Services

4.7

0.2

Estates Consolidation

14.0

31.3

38.6

22.1

Estates Transformation

2.7

3.1

e-Sourcing

0.7

0.4

1.7

0.6

Government Banking

1.0

12.6

4.9

22.1

8.2

17.4

11.1

Human Resources initiatives

4.0

0.3

Information Technology (Desktop upgrade)

52.0

1.9

Integrated Customer Management

1.0

Joint Working DWP/Transform Government

1.0

Northgate—transfer of payroll to HMRC

3.9

1.4

Pacesetter (all programmes)

5.9

4.8

11.9

7.9

PAYE(MPPC)

27.0

0.2

63.8

0.4

73.6

9.0

43.4

7.2

Pensions Simplification

14.0

0.4

5.1

People, Culture and Skills

9.0

0.3

PAYE Improvement Group

0.1

Performance Management Framework

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.4

0.1

Policy Development Programme

19.0

0.5

34.9

4.5

42.8

2.2

Processing Pacesetter

18.0

10.3

12.3

2.7

6.1

0.7

Strategic Investment

3.0

1.2

Tax Credits

1.0

0.3

8.9

0.8

14.1

0.9

10.7

Taxpayer Understanding

2.0

1.9

0.0

Transform Debt Managements. Banking

6.0

0.8

15.1

0.8

Web Convergence

4.4

3.1

Workforce Change

65.9

HMRC overheads1

5.5

12.2

3.6

4.2

IT service line charges1

47.5

53.2

60.0

Total

429.4

61.5

421.4

28.2

647.5

50.6

441.2

35.2

1 These items represent expenditure commitments funded though the DTP and are not formal delivery programmes.

The HMRC Senior Responsible Owners for each of the programmes in delivery during 2009-10 are as follows:

Programme

Senior responsible owner

Business.gov

Stephen Banyard

Capability Review

Steve Lamey

Carter

Stephen Banyard

Compliance and Enforcement

Mike Eland

Customs Service Transformation

Mike Norgrove

Data Security

Mary Aiston

Debt Management and Banking

Nick Lodge

Estates Consolidation

Paul King

Government Banking

Dave Hartnett

Method of Payments

Jon Fundrey

MPPC (PAYE)

Bemadette Kenny

PaceSetter—Benefits and Credits

Richard Summersgill

PaceSetter—Business Tax

Theresa Hobson—Frohock

PaceSetter—Charity, Assets and Residence

Charles Hall

PaceSetter—Customer Contact

Theresa Middleton

PaceSetter—Chief People Office function

Cathy Wilcher (to end—November 2009)

PaceSetter—Corporate Shared Services

Cathy Wilcher (to end—November 2009)

PaceSetter—Customer Operations

Simon Smith

PaceSetter—Debt Management and Banking

Nick Lodge

PaceSetter—Enforcement and Compliance

Mike Eland

PaceSetter—HMRC Central

Alison McDonald

Performance Management Framework

Mary Aiston

Policy Programme

Peter Michael

Tax Credits

Steve Lowthian