Customs Officers: Manpower

Mr. Jim Cunningham
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many customs officers were employed in the UK in each year since 1995.

Dawn Primarolo
The number of staff in HM Customs and Excise from 1995 to 2005 were published in the tables to the Civil Service Statistics, available in printed form in the House of Commons Library and online at:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/reports/index.asp

After this time, no statistics are available for HM Customs and Excise as a separate Department, and the figures refer to HM Revenue and Customs.