HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Reproducible Analytical Pipeline (RAP) Strategy Implementation Plan 2023

As a department, we at HMRC want to produce better quality outputs more efficiently.  These two aims may seem incompatible, but we believe that we can do both by embracing innovation and empowering our analysts through the adoption of Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAPs).

Analysts at HMRC

HMRC is a large organisation undergoing major transformation to legacy analysis tools and data stores. The organisation has:

• a dedicated central analytical function
• analysts embedded in specialist teams across HMRC
• analysts working independently

Knowledge and experience of RAP

There are varying levels of knowledge and experience of RAP across the HMRC analytical community. This is because of the size and complexity of the department, its IT, and its data.

The central analytical function has a comparatively high level of experience and knowledge of RAP. So, our main aim is to build on the success of our statistical improvement programme, through which 90% of statistical publications have been transformed to meet our RAP standard.

The RAP Implementation Plan 2023

The RAP Implementation Plan 2023 is part of HMRC’s long term ambition for RAP. One of the main aims of the Implementation Plan is to identify our distributed analysts and start to review and plan their RAP journey based on wider dependencies such as IT transformation. This will ensure the widespread development and use of RAP. This could be a partial, gradual, or quick process to a full RAP as appropriate.

By working together with analysts across the organisation, considering the risks and value of implementing RAPs, we will be able to provide the right support and governance at the right time.