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1005996

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date	13/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Home Shopping: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using revenue from the online sales tax to support high streets.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	190887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Budget 2018 announced Our Plan for the High Street, a support package worth £1.5 billion that aims to help high streets and town centres in England to evolve and adapt to changing consumer demands.</p><p> </p><p>This support includes a two-year business rates cut of one third to the bills of small retailers, a £675m Future High Streets Fund to support high streets to evolve, and planning reforms.</p><p> </p><p>The measures apply to England. The UK Government is providing Barnett consequential funding to the Devolved Administrations so that they may offer similar support if they wish.</p>At the Budget, the government announced a Digital Services Tax. This is not a tax on online sales but a tax on the revenues of certain digital business activities which derive value from UK users. answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 21/11/2018 15:17:24 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1005998

registered interest
date	13/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he will consider further tax breaks for micro businesses and small business to enable those businesses to take on more employees.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	190889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>This government recognises the UK’s 5.7 million small and medium businesses play a vital role in the economy, employing 16.1 million people.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2014, businesses and charities have been entitled to the Employment Allowance (EA) to reduce their employer NICs bill every year to enable them to grow and hire new staff. The EA was increased in 2015 to £3,000 per employer and from April 2020 will be targeted at the smallest businesses, who need it most.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 21/11/2018 15:39:38 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1006003

registered interest
date	13/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Motorways: Speed Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the news report entitled Raising motorway speed limit could boost economy, Treasury Minister says on Tory conference fringe, published by the Mirror in October 2018, whether the Chief Secretary's comments that raising the speed limit to 80 mph would increase national productivity represented Government policy.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	190758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>These comments did not represent current government policy. The government is committed to increasing national productivity, and is exploring transport’s full potential to enable this.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 21/11/2018 15:55:43 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1006173

registered interest
date	13/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of all economic analyses the Government has undertaken on banning post duty point dilution or processing.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	190902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>Published policy costings provide information on the analysis undertaken to calculate the exchequer impact of every announced policy. This is published alongside the Redbook at each fiscal event. It is not government policy to make publically available detailed economic analysis that feeds into budget decision making.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 21/11/2018 15:42:27 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1006208

registered interest
date	13/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what effect has plain packaging had on the tax received from tobacco duty receipts in each financial year since that policy was introduced.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	190817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>There has been a long term reduction in annual tobacco duty receipts, driven by above-RPI increases in duty and changing attitudes to smoking. As shown in the published Tobacco Bulletin July 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In their November 2016 Economic and fiscal outlook the Office of Budget Responsibility revised their estimates of the underlying downward trend in clearances of tobacco. This was to account for various factors including weakness in tobacco receipts and the expected effects of the Tobacco Products Directive. Paragraph 4.75 noted that the effect on receipts from the introduction of standardised tobacco packaging is assumed to be captured by this downward trend in clearances across the forecast period.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/11/2018 16:48:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1006210

registered interest
date	13/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Corporation Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of lowering the rate of corporation tax on corporation tax receipts since 2017.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	190819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The OECD has concluded that corporation tax is the most harmful tax for growth and productivity.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2017, the corporation tax rate was reduced from 20% to 19%. This is the continuation of this government’s reduction in the rate from 28% in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Lower corporation taxes can result in increased profits, wages, employment and consumption that all feed through into higher tax revenues that support our vital public services.</p><p> </p><p>Despite the rate cut in 2017, the onshore corporation tax revenues have increased from £53.6 billion in 2016-17 to £56.1 billion in 2017-18. Since 2010, onshore corporation tax revenues have increased by 55%.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 21/11/2018 15:35:46 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell