Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
2026-05-28 · Treasury · 4541 · Official question
Question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average call waiting time was for (a) the standard HMRC helpline and (b) the Public Department 1 specialist helpline in each of the last five years.
Answer
HMRC measures call waiting times using the Average Speed of Answer (ASA). ASA is the average time spent waiting in the queue for an adviser. This is from the time that the customer finished listening to HMRC’s automated messages and completed their select...