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RE-THINK TAX OFFICE CLOSURES SAYS HEATH

8.45.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Sun 13th Jul 2008

Somerton & Frome MP David Heath has called on Ministers to re-think the closure of tax offices across Somerset. Speaking in questions to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Parliament today, Mr Heath said that the decision to close HM Revenue & Customs offices in Frome, Yeovil, Wells, Bridgwater and Weston-super-Mare would damage the local economy and provide a worse level of service to people in Somerset.

Mr Heath said:

"How will the provision of service to individuals and businesses be improved by closing local offices and moving the business to Bristol?

How is it fair to loyal staff who will find themselves either out of a job or with quite impossible daily commutes?

How is it economically or environmentally sensible to close local, accessible offices and make people drive to congested Bristol where commercial property costs are much higher?

These closures are going to do a lot of damage to Somerset, and the government should think again."

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