Written Question·Treasury·UIN 83164

Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

Tabled: 17 October 2025
Answered: 27 October 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) average waiting time for people calling and (b) time people spent on hold for HMRC was in the last year.

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
HMRC telephony performance data, including the average speed of answering a customer’s call, is published on a regular basis and can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-quarterly-performance-updates The definition of ‘average sp...
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