JOB losses resulting from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) “absolutely devastating” decision to shut down more than 100 offices should be debated in the Commons, Civil Service union PCS said yesterday.

The closures would pose a “significant threat” to the collection of tax revenue and to staff’s working lives, according to the union.

PCS called for full public and parliamentary scrutiny of the planned closure of 137 offices that HMRC says is part of its decade-long “modernisation programme.”