Petition · past parliament

Stop the destructive 'building our future' office closure programme in HMRC

Closed 2,585 signatures

What the petition asks

HM Revenue & Customs has announced its intent to close all 170 offices around the country and replace them with 13 regional centres and 4 specialist sites. The office closures will leave hundreds of staff facing redundancy and decimate local communities where HMRC is the major employer.
Since 2010, more than 10,000 jobs have been cut from the department and 250 offices have closed, plus the network of 281 walk-in tax enquiry centres. The public accounts committee criticised HMRC's "woefully inadequate" efforts to tackle tax evasione and said they feared the telephone helpline service was so bad it was "having an adverse impact on the collection of tax revenues". With so few sites planned to remain, the livelihoods of thousands of employees are being needlessly put at risk.

Debate in Parliament

MPs debated this petition on 24 November 2015.

House of Commons debates HMRC office closures.

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Timeline

16 Nov 2015 Petition opened for signatures
24 Nov 2015 Debated in Parliament
16 May 2016 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 2,585
Status Closed
Opened 16 Nov 2015
Closed 16 May 2016
Debated 24 Nov 2015

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.