Back to News 24th Oct 2019 by Andrew Earnshaw Telegraph – Tim Wallace: Former Treasury minister Mel Stride has been voted in as chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, raising fears he will be “marking his own homework” by scrutinising policies he introduced when on the Government benches. MPs have warned Mr Stride’s appointment will hamper efforts to probe a HMRC crackdown on 50,000 people who avoided income tax by taking pay as ‘loans’ not wages. Mr Stride played a significant role in introducing the so-called loan charge policy, which left thousands of ordinary people facing huge tax demands from as far back as 1999 and has been linked to at least one suicide. (cont.)