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1365133

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to help the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors recover from the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Meon Valley
tabling member printed	Mrs Flick Drummond
uin	903997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>This Government has provided around £400 billion of direct support to the economy during the pandemic, and as part of that it has provided £16 billion of business rates relief to the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors in England.</p><p> </p><p>At Autumn Budget 21, the Government announced a new temporary relief worth almost £1.7 billion for these sectors to support local high streets as they adapt and recover.</p><p> </p><p>At Spring Budget 21, the Government extended the 5% temporary reduced rate of VAT for the tourism and hospitality sectors until the end of September. On 1 October 2021, a new reduced rate of VAT at 12.5% was introduced to help ease businesses back to the standard rate. This rate will end on 31 March 2022. There are no plans to extend the length of this relief again.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 903998 question first answered 02/11/2021 17:48:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4459 label Biography information for Mrs Flick Drummond

1365134

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Hospitality Industry: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Scotland on the level of VAT applied to hospitality businesses.
tabling member constituency	Gordon
tabling member printed	Richard Thomson
uin	903998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>This Government has provided around £400 billion of direct support to the economy during the pandemic, and as part of that it has provided £16 billion of business rates relief to the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors in England.</p><p> </p><p>At Autumn Budget 21, the Government announced a new temporary relief worth almost £1.7 billion for these sectors to support local high streets as they adapt and recover.</p><p> </p><p>At Spring Budget 21, the Government extended the 5% temporary reduced rate of VAT for the tourism and hospitality sectors until the end of September. On 1 October 2021, a new reduced rate of VAT at 12.5% was introduced to help ease businesses back to the standard rate. This rate will end on 31 March 2022. There are no plans to extend the length of this relief again.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 903997 question first answered 02/11/2021 17:48:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4796 label Biography information for Richard Thomson

1365135

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he plans to take in response to the publication of the Pandora Papers to tackle (a) tax avoidance, (b) money laundering and (c) other financial crimes.
tabling member constituency	Ilford South
tabling member printed	Sam Tarry
uin	904001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>This government is committed to making the UK a hostile place for illicit finance and economic crime. We are determined to crack down on dirty money and financial exploitation, to protect our security and prosperity. We have taken action through our ‘No Safe Havens’ strategy to ensure the correct UK tax is paid; and our landmark 2019 Economic Crime Plan outlines a comprehensive response to ensure the UK cannot be abused for economic crime.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 02/11/2021 14:47:12 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4829 label Biography information for Sam Tarry

1364627

registered interest
date	29/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Food: Wholesale Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.67 of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, whether food and drink wholesalers will be eligible for the 50 per cent business rates relief discount.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	66183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2021 answer text <p>Guidance setting out eligibility for the 2022-23 retail, hospitality and leisure reliefs will be published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in due course.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 05/11/2021 13:58:03 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1364672

registered interest
date	29/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bank Cards
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 potential merits of allowing customers to opt-out of contactless payments.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	66258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government believes that contactless payment cards bring benefits to consumers and businesses across the UK by facilitating easy and secure payments.</p><p> </p><p>The legal contactless payment limits are set by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) through the Strong Customer Authentication rules, and the FCA has the power to amend these limits subject to public consultation and Treasury approval. In March, the FCA raised the legal single contactless payment limit increased from £45 to £100, and the cumulative transaction limit increased from £130 to £300.</p><p> </p><p>In making this decision, the FCA considered the risks to customers, including the impacts on fraud, alongside the benefits. Within these limits, some card providers offer the opportunity for their customers to vary their individual contactless limits, or to request cards without contactless functionality. These are commercial and operational considerations for individual card providers.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 08/11/2021 12:03:54 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1364250

registered interest
date	28/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Property Development: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, whether the money being raised through the residential property developer tax will be additional to the £5 billion previously announced for the Building Safety Fund.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	65366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>The Residential Property Developer Tax will raise at least £2 billion over the next decade. This will help to fund the £5 billion package of funding that was announced in February 2021 for the removal of unsafe cladding from the highest risk buildings.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 02/11/2021 12:46:39 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1364259

registered interest
date	28/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Freeports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph A.29 of the Office for Budget Responsibility's report on the Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published in October 2021, what assessment he has made of validity of the assumption used in that report that the effect of freeports will be to alter the location rather than the volume of economic activity.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	65424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>Our focus has been to encourage new investment to create new businesses and new economic activity.</p><p> </p><p>When designating Freeports we required bidders to explain how their choice of tax site locations minimises displacement of economic activity from wider local areas, especially other economically disadvantaged areas. The OBR recognised this in their Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at the Budget, the first Freeport tax sites will be designated on 19 November.</p><p> </p><p>We are already seeing positive evidence of new investment at Freeports. For example, DP World announced an investment of £300 million to support Thames Freeport, while GE Renewable Energy plans to bring their new blade manufacturing plant to Teesport and Siemens Gamesa are investing £186m in expanding their offshore blade manufacturing plant in Hull.</p><p> </p><p>There will be a monitoring and evaluation programme to ensure that Freeports deliver on their objectives and present good value for money.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 02/11/2021 14:10:04 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1364260

registered interest
date	28/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Darlington Economic Campus: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) Treasury and (b) non-Treasury civil servants were physically present and working in the Economic Campus in Darlington on (i) Monday, (ii) Tuesday, (iii) Wednesday, (iv) Thursday and (v) Friday in the week commencing 11 October 2021 in which the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury was working in that campus.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	65425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>All HMT offices are open and available for use by HMT staff. We are not able to share separate breakdowns by location and do not hold information on non-HMT staff use of the Darlington economic campus.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 02/11/2021 17:24:56 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1364289

registered interest
date	28/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	SME Brexit Support Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was distributed from the £20 million SME Brexit Support Fund before that fund’s closure on the 30 June 2021.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	65483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>As of 26 October 2021, there has been a total of 4,268 payments made to 4,163 unique businesses, amounting to £6,682,367.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 02/11/2021 12:50:25 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1364290

registered interest
date	28/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	SME Brexit Support Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many SMEs applied for funding through the SME Brexit Support Fund before that fund’s closure on the 30 June 2021.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	65484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>As of 26 October 2021, 11,138 SMEs expressed an interest in applying for funding through the SME Brexit Support Fund, and 5088 grant offers were made.</p><p> </p><p>There were 6050 applications that did not progress to the grant offer stage. This was for a variety of reasons, primarily that 4461 did not finalise their applications. The remaining 1589 applications were not offered grants as they did not meet the eligibility criteria.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 02/11/2021 12:48:49 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts