- Reference: 2010/4118
- Question by: Len Duvall OBE
- Meeting date: 15 December 2010
At November 2010 Mayor's Question Time you told me 'I will join you in calling for tax evaders to be prosecuted'. Will you undertake to write to the Chancellor, George Osborne, reminding him that, by HMRC figures alone (National Fraud Indicator 2010), tax evasion costs the Treasury ten times more (£10.7 billion p.a) than benefit theft and urging him to invest equal resources in recouping benefit theft and evaded tax and securing convictions for those who do so?