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==Restoring public confidence in HMRC==
 
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Sunderland-born Mr Clasper took a pay cut for the HMRC role, earning £150,000 for a three-day week. Part of his brief was to rebuild public confidence in an organisation rocked by the major security breach when a copy of the entire child benefit database was lost.<ref name="chair"/>
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Sunderland-born Clasper apparently took a pay cut for the HMRC role, earning £150,000 for a three-day week. Part of his brief was to rebuild public confidence in an organisation rocked by the major security breach of a loss of a copy of the full child benefit database, which had led to the resignation of his predecessor [[Paul Gray]].<ref name="chair"/>
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==

Revision as of 21:10, 16 November 2011

Mike Clasper is the Chairman of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). A former boss of BAA, he joined HMRC in August 2008 after a one-year stint at private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners. [1]

BAA chief

Clasper ran BAA between 2001 and 2006, leaving after its £10.1bn takeover by Spanish construction group Ferrovial.[1]

Restoring public confidence in HMRC

Sunderland-born Clasper apparently took a pay cut for the HMRC role, earning £150,000 for a three-day week. Part of his brief was to rebuild public confidence in an organisation rocked by the major security breach of a loss of a copy of the full child benefit database, which had led to the resignation of his predecessor Paul Gray.[1]

Affiliations

  • ITV - non-executive chief


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Alistair Osborne, Mike Clasper takes HMRC chair, The Telegraph, 25 Jun 2008, acc 16 November 2011