Revenue and Customs and Valuation Office Agency: Civil Servants
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many civil servants are assigned to work in each of (a) HMRC’s and (b) the Valuation Office Agency offices; and how many desks are available in each office.
Answered by James Murray
The table below sets out HMRC’s headcount and workspaces by location for September 2024.
Table 1: HMRC Locations – Headcount and workspaces for September 2024
Location | Headcount | Workspaces |
100PS | 955 | 516 |
Belfast | 2,208 | 1,030 |
Birmingham | 3,372 | 1,610 |
Bradford | 1,193 | 804 |
Bristol | 1,262 | 820 |
Cardiff | 4,208 | 2,281 |
Croydon | 2,555 | 1,469 |
Dover | 196 | 155 |
East Kilbride | 1,911 | 1,269 |
Edinburgh | 1,940 | 1,426 |
Gartcosh | 283 | 238 |
Glasgow | 2,872 | 1,447 |
Ipswich | 451 | 268 |
Leeds | 3,782 | 1,817 |
Liverpool | 5,596 | 2,753 |
Manchester | 6,014 | 3,214 |
Newcastle | 8,056 | 5,565 |
Nottingham | 4,061 | 1,855 |
Portsmouth | 994 | 913 |
Preston | 1,419 | 804 |
Reading | 101 | 78 |
Stratford | 5,112 | 2,717 |
Swansea | 127 | 140 |
Telford | 1,059 | 565 |
Washington | 2,135 | 1,944 |
Worthing | 587 | 712 |
Total | 62,449 | 36,410 |
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) is an executive agency of HMRC and has 35 offices nationally (England, Scotland and Wales). Table 2 shows VOA’s Headcount and workspaces for September 2024
Table 2 VOA Locations – Headcount and workspaces for September 2024
Location | Headcount | Workspaces |
Aberdeen | 4 | 5 |
Birmingham | 170 | 84 |
Bristol | 102 | 60 |
Cambridge | 38 | 30 |
Canary Wharf Hub | 325 | 212 |
Cardiff | 111 | 60 |
Carmarthen | 22 | 14 |
Colchester | 56 | 54 |
Croydon | 177 | 86 |
Durham | 409 | 360 |
Eastbourne | 42 | 42 |
Edinburgh | 20 | 8 |
Exeter | 44 | 30 |
Folkestone | 26 | 32 |
Glasgow | 18 | 15 |
Hull | 54 | 50 |
Inverness | 5 | 6 |
Lancaster | 14 | 16 |
Leeds | 273 | 162 |
Liverpool | 150 | 70 |
Manchester | 180 | 84 |
Newcastle | 233 | 104 |
Norwich | 41 | 52 |
Nottingham | 127 | 80 |
Oxford | 34 | 24 |
Plymouth | 437 | 322 |
Preston | 53 | 30 |
Sheffield | 53 | 30 |
Southampton | 58 | 60 |
St Austell | 17 | 24 |
Stoke-On-Trent | 67 | 52 |
Swansea | 71 | 24 |
Wembley | 113 | 67 |
Worthing Digital Centre | 2 | 3 |
Wrexham | 51 | 24 |
Total | 3,597 | 2,376 |
Our offices have different types of workspaces which allow people to match the task to the most suitable space. We therefore use workspaces rather than the number of desks.
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