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Speeches by Caliskan.

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16 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 893)

So the next stage is for the Treasury to sign off the framework, or—

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16 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 893)

There seems to be a clear timeline or, at least, process going forward, but I want to press a bit more. In 2022, it was first identified that the framework was not adequate. I think the Treasury said it was non-compliant. As of now, it is still not updated, so that has been the case for quite a lengthy period of time.

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16 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 893)

Thank you. I am going to move on to some questions about the MOD’s role as a funder for RFCAs. A few years ago, the MOD asked the Treasury to review the financial framework between the Army and the council. In 2022, the review raised concerns about the framework’s compliance with Treasury rules. The NAO Report details

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16 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 893)

So it is absolutely not about actively coercing cadets, but making sure that there is the available information for those who are seeking out pathways. David Williams indicated assent.

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16 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 893)

That is very clear in all the reports. The MOD, the cadets and the reserves are very clear about that, but a large proportion of the Army has come through the cadets, and I cannot help but think that it is a really powerful way to show young people a meaningful and inspiring career path. Do you think that there has bee

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16 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 893)

I am going to ask some questions on the MOD’s role as a funder, but let me first build on Chris’s points about the efforts to get more cadets recruited. I absolutely agree with the point about devolution, but on a smaller scale too, the picture can look very different even from local authority to local authority. If yo

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16 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 893)

Sometimes there is a tension between the desire to professionalise an organisation and the need, at the same time, to reach out to non-traditional communities to recruit. To what extent has the challenge of that potential tension been considered?

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16 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 893)

General Overton and General Gordon, can you comment a bit more on how the MOD can use the RFCAs to invigorate its relationship with the strategic reserve, as recommended by the strategic defence review? The Committee has previously heard representation from witnesses on the need for flexibility, and armed forces that a

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

Having confidence in a figure is important, because it gives the organisation a sense of whether it is successful in using the tools that you have at your disposal and in targeting a group of individuals who will generate significant income for HMRC. I just want to press again on that figure. If you are not confident a

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

What is your understanding of what that figure is at the moment? How confident are you about that figure? It does seem low.

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

Is there any particular work that focuses on the tax gap for the wealthiest individuals as opposed to the overall figure?

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

Does that include the wealthy figure too?

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

Where I would not want you to end up is not opening cases at all.

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

There is a tax gap estimate at the moment. In your view, will the steps that you are outlining and the proposals that are being considered at the moment improve that estimate?

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

Let me ask you about that. The majority of the population understand that, for wealthier individuals, their tax affairs are complicated. They recognise that they would have an agent or an accountant in the way that the majority of people, and certainly my constituents, are unable to pay for. They recognise that, for HM

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

In your analysis of where you might minimise the risk, so setting out the risks that you identify, your interaction with the agents will be a really key component in being able to make sure that you prevent non-compliance in the first place, which, presumably, for HMRC is a much better and more effective approach than

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

Yes.

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

Sorry, just to be clear, I should have said that the figure that I am referencing is the £1.9 billion figure. When we consider the numbers from HMRC and we talk about wealthy individuals, a £1.9 billion figure is significant for many people, but, in terms of the overall numbers, seems rather low. How confident are you

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

I am going to ask a bit more about tax agents and the associated risks. Nearly a quarter of wealthy individuals use agents, who are, basically, accountants, for the ordinary person who might not be able to afford an accountant. I want to understand a bit more about non-compliance and your assessment. In your view, is i

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12 Jun 2025Public Accounts Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 827)

Could one of the factors be that there are fewer penalties being issued to the super rich?

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