£813m average amount HMRC spent each year on the Aspire contract, July 2004 to March 2014 |
| £506bn amount HMRC collected in tax receipts, 2013-14 |
| 30% reduction in HMRC's operating costs, 2006-07 to 2013-14 |
95 per cent | projects implemented since 2008-09 without high-priority incidents |
387 | working minutes lost in 2013-14 per full time equivalent HMRC staff member due to ICT not being available. This is down from 2,736 minutes in 2007-08 |
£7.9 billion | HMRC paid to Aspire suppliers between July 2004 and March 2014, after adjusting for inflation |
£1.2 billion | profit earned by major suppliers (16 per cent of the £7.9 billion HMRC paid), after adjusting for inflation |
Three years | left for HMRC to reform its ICT approach, to meet government policy and replace the Aspire contract |