The HMRC scandal is rapidly developing into a full-blown cover-up story.Today’s Telegraph reports that HMRC director, Neil Jordan, was copied in on e-mails revealing the decision not to remove crucial personal details from the records sent to the National Audit Office – which tends to cast doubt on the impression given by Alistair Darling to the Commons that the whole cock-up arose as a result of an unauthorised frolic on the part of a “junior HMRC official”.
The Telegraph also contends that the sensitive information could have been removed from the records at a cost of only £5,000.
There will undoubtedly be hard questions lobbed across the chamber when the House meets again on Monday.
All this is bad for the Government, of course, but what will really unnerve No. 10 is the fact that the NAO is refusing to substantiate the line that has been put out by the Treasury hitherto. Sir John Bourn, the head of the NAO, apparently authorised the latest revelations - showing that he has no intention of letting his department play the patsy.
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I run a small family business and find it very disturbing that all lies and acts of deceit are taking place.
I have all sorts of red tape to contend with, put in place by this immoral government, yet they seem to have no such constraints.
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