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759178

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Glasgow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of its proposals to relocate HM Revenue and Customs staff to a regional office in Glasgow on disabled staff.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	9878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) conducted a high level people impact assessment using known workforce management data to inform the regional centre location decisions. People and equality impacts are managed at both programme and regional level to mitigate potential impacts on different groups, including disabled staff. The regional people and equality impact assessment is undertaken early in the project and is updated on a regular basis throughout the project.</p><p> </p><p>All staff are offered a one-to-one discussion, normally about a year before any office move which affects them, to establish whether they can move. Under the reasonable adjustment policy, HMRC will work with individuals with particular needs to identify any adjustments required to enable this. Accessibility to regional centres has been factored into overall requirements for those centres from the outset.</p><p> </p><p>As previously announced, the Glasgow Regional Centre is expected to have between 2,700 and 3,000 full time equivalent posts when it opens. East Kilbride will be retained as a transitional site beyond the opening date of the Glasgow Regional Centre until 2025-26. The number of current full time equivalent staff employed at the offices which will feed into the Glasgow Regional Centre is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Office</p></td><td><p>Closure date as announced</p></td><td><p>Full Time Equivalent Employees as of 31/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Destination by 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbernauld</p></td><td><p>Accounts Office <em>Timing depends on Accounts Office in Shipley</em></p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>980</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Portcullis House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Regional Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Kilbride</p></td><td><p>Plaza Tower</p></td><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>Cotton House</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>1600</p></td><td><p>East Kilbride Transitional Site</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Specific details about the rental liability of the current HMRC offices in the Glasgow area is commercially sensitive information; disclosing it could compromise the future ability of the landlords to re-let the buildings.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9764 9765 9766 9767 question first answered 14/09/2017 11:24:52 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

759181

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons recruitment controls were imposed at HM Revenue and Customs offices in Glasgow, London, Newcastle and Worthing from 1 August 2017; and what is the nature of those controls.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South
tabling member printed	Stewart Malcolm McDonald
uin	9909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) ambition to move to 13 Regional Centre locations, along with a small number of transitional and specialist sites, requires effective planning of future workforce numbers.</p><p> </p><p>Additional recruitment controls have been introduced in Glasgow, London, Newcastle and Worthing to ensure HMRC is not recruiting more people than required.</p><p> </p><p>These are designed to ensure that greater rigour is applied to the vacancy filling and external recruitment processes. HMRC will manage and monitor these controls as part of the normal approval processes for vacancies and external recruitment.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 15/09/2017 13:53:09 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald

759182

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions: Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Hull West and Hessle constituency earn under £6,000 a year and make voluntary national insurance contributions through Class 2.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	9932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>These figures are not available in the form requested.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/09/2017 10:53:20 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

759190

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when HM Revenue and Customs plans to reply to applications from the haulage sector for bespoke agreements to pay overnight allowances to drivers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	9701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>This information is not available. HM Revenue and Customs does not record turnaround times for dealing with approval notices from the haulage sector.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 15/09/2017 13:53:56 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

759191

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons HM Revenue and Customs plans to change the sleep cab allowance for lorry drivers from April 2017; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	9702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>Finance Act 2015 introduced an exemption for general business expenses, to reduce reporting for employers when reimbursing actual costs. The legislation which took effect from April 2016 applies to all employers and brought in a statutory requirement to operate a checking system to ensure that employees are incurring allowable expenses. Employers in the haulage sector were allowed a further year to put checking systems in place.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 15/09/2017 13:55:30 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

759193

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Social Enterprises: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether those inspecting social investment tax relief advanced assurance applications in his Department are conducting their inspections in line with the current law on social investment tax relief.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	9840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) administers the social investment tax relief (SITR) scheme and applies the current law when considering applications from social enterprises. HMRC does not provide its opinion on non-statutory pre-clearance applications (advance assurances) where there will be, or may be, a rule change that would affect the eligibility of a proposed investment. Investors are able to make such investments without an advance assurance.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 15/09/2017 13:54:37 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

759194

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Economic Situation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the potential effect on the country's gross domestic product of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	10008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>Government has undertaken a significant amount of work to assess the economic impacts of leaving the EU. This is part of our continued programme of rigorous and extensive analytical work on a range of scenarios on a sector by sector basis.</p><p> </p><p>All departments need to prepare not just for a negotiated settlement, but also for the no deal scenario. We are confident that we will secure a deal, but are prepared should there be no deal.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 19/09/2017 10:22:29 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

758954

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Domicil
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the tax paid by non-doms in the UK in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	9661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>A total of around £9.3 billion was paid in income tax, capital gains tax and national insurance contributions by non-domiciled taxpayers in the tax year 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p>This information and further details on non-domiciled taxpayers can be found in Table 1 of ‘Statistics on Non-domiciled Taxpayers in the UK,’ on the gov.uk website (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/640900/Statistic_tables_on_non-domiciled_UK_taxpayers.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/640900/Statistic_tables_on_non-domiciled_UK_taxpayers.pdf</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Information on tax paid by non-domiciled taxpayers is collected through the self-assessment tax form. Data for 2016-17 is currently unavailable because the filing deadline of 31/01/2018 for 2016-17 self-assessment returns has not yet passed.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 13/09/2017 16:28:52 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

758955

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Economic Growth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what annual growth rate results from (a) 0.2 per cent growth in Q1, (b) 0.6 per cent in Q2, (c) 0.6 per cent in Q3 and (d) 0.7 per cent in Q4.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	9662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>Annual growth rates are calculated from the annual average level of a variable.</p><p> </p><p>The independent Office for National Statistics publish the official estimates of UK GDP growth. The latest information can be found here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/ihyp/pn2" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/ihyp/pn2</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/09/2017 15:10:18 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

758956

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of staff in his Department are (a) female, (b) BAME and (c) part time; and what proportion of the staff in his Department who received an annual performance award were in each of those categories in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	9664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The proportion of staff in his Department which are (a) female, (b) BAME and (c) part time can be found in the link below:-</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatisticsdatasummarytool" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatisticsdatasummarytool</a></p><p> </p><p>The proportion of the staff in his Department who received an annual performance award in each of those categories above for the last three years can be found in the table below:-</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Box 1 Performance Award as percentage each diverse group in scope (Award is limited to 25% of staff)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>BAME</p></td><td><p>Part-time</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>51%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>52%</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Please note:- SCS are not included in the above table as they appraised by a separate Performance Management system set by the Cabinet Office. Also box mark 1 is only available to the top 25% of staff.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 13/09/2017 13:54:05 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman