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390180

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2015 to Question 5989, what estimate he has made of the cost of estimating the number of employees who receive more in tax credits than they pay in tax and national insurance contributions.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	7519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The cost considered by the Treasury to be disproportionate is £850. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are unable to provide an answer to PQ 5989 within proportionate costs as information stored on the tax credits system does not contain data on the amount of income tax and national insurance contributions, and to match this data would incur a cost of more than £850.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 20/07/2015 15:24:57 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

390181

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 1.213 of the Summer Budget 2015 and paragraph 1.252 of the Autumn Statement 2014, what steps he plans to take to ask the tobacco industry to make a greater contribution to the costs imposed by smoking on society.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	7521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The government has already made significant interventions on tobacco, both to protect revenue and to promote public health. This includes the extension of the tobacco duty escalator until the end of the current Parliament and the introduction of plain packaging for tobacco products from May 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/07/2015 13:49:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

390183

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment HM Revenue and Customs has made of the effectiveness of the Codentify tracking and tracing system in preventing illicit trade in tobacco; and whether his Department plans to commission an independent assessment of the potential for that system to meet the requirement for a tracking and tracing system under the EU Tobacco Products Directive.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	7477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The European Commission is still considering the options for implementation of the requirement for a tracking and tracing system under the EU Tobacco Products Directive, and no potential systems will be evaluated until that work is concluded.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/07/2015 13:50:52 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

390185

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Inheritance Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effects of the proposed increase in inheritance tax thresholds on property prices (a) nationally and (b) in each region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	7483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Office for Budget Responsibility has assessed the measures relating to the housing market in the Summer Budget 2015. It estimates that they will have small and offsetting effects, and so it has not adjusted its forecast for house prices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 20/07/2015 15:42:44 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

390189

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Departmental Expenditure Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 14 July 2015 to Question 6473 and with reference to Tables 2.5 and 2.3 in the March and Summer Budget books, how the £1 billion reduction in the Department for International Development's Resource Department's Expenditure Limit has been reallocated.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	7359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to spending 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) on official development assistance (ODA). The planned resource DEL expenditure for the Department for International Development (DFID) has decreased between March and Summer Budget by approximately £1bn because every year at Main Estimates in July DFID transfers ODA funding to other government departments to help meet the government’s overall international development objectives. This is purely a timing issue. The decrease in DFID’s resource budget for 2015/16 is reflected as increases to other government department’s resource budgets. For example, over £700m of the £1bn transfer from DFID to other departments made at Main Estimates is to FCO for the Conflict, Security and Stabilisation Fund (CSSF). The total planned DEL spend in 2015/16 across Government on ODA did not change between March and Summer budgets. DFID publishes actual ODA spent by departments, of which the latest provisional figures are available for 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/07/2015 16:33:31 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

390190

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Departmental Expenditure Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 14 July 2015 to Question 6473 and with reference to Tables 2.5 and 2.3 in the March and Summer Budget books, why there is a £1 billion reduction in the Department for International Development's Resource Department's Expenditure Limit.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	7360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to spending 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) on official development assistance (ODA). The planned resource DEL expenditure for the Department for International Development (DFID) has decreased between March and Summer Budget by approximately £1bn because every year at Main Estimates in July DFID transfers ODA funding to other government departments to help meet the government’s overall international development objectives. This is purely a timing issue. The decrease in DFID’s resource budget for 2015/16 is reflected as increases to other government department’s resource budgets and the total planned DEL spend in 2015/16 across Government on ODA did not change between March and Summer budgets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/07/2015 15:21:49 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

390207

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding will be allocated to the Joint Security Fund in each year up to 2020.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	7223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The new Joint Security Fund will grow to £1.5bn by the end of this Parliament and will fund key capabilities in Defence and the Intelligence Agencies, providing further support for the UK to defend itself against the threats it faces. The profile of this fund will not be determined until the conclusion of the Spending Review and Strategic Defence and Security Review this autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/07/2015 16:11:14 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

390484

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit: Bradford East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in Bradford East constituency will be affected by plans to limit child tax credits to two children.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	7283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information about the number of benefitting families and average entitlement in the Bradford East constituency in the tax year 2013-14 can be found in the publication ‘Personal tax credits: Finalised award statistics – geographical statistics 2013-2014’ here:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2013-to-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is making changes to Child Tax Credit and Universal Credit which will help put welfare spending on a more sustainable path. The Government wants to move from a low wage, high tax, high welfare society to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society. That means more emphasis on support to hardworking families on low incomes by reducing income tax through increases in the personal allowance and increasing wages, than on topping up low wages through tax credits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>From April 2017, the child element of Child Tax Credit will be limited to two children. This means that families who have a third or subsequent child after April 2017 will not receive additional support for this child. Support provided to families who make a new claim to Universal Credit after this date will also be limited to two children. Equivalent changes will be made in housing benefit.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/07/2015 13:54:08 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

389699

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on changing the income threshold for child tax credit (a) in 2016-17 and (b) by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	6966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The income threshold after which payments of Child Tax Credit begin to be reduced will continue to depend on a number of factors: the first income threshold (the Working Tax Credit threshold), the taper rate (the rate at which tax credits are reduced once the first income threshold has been exceeded), and the level of uprating of the individual elements of tax credits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/07/2015 13:48:43 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

389704

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Taxpayers: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Ministers of the Scottish Government on the use of NHS Scotland's Central Register to identify Scottish taxpayers.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	7086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>No discussions have taken place between UK and Scottish Ministers on this specific issue. The decision on whether to make available NHS Scotland data to support the identification process for Scottish taxpayers is one for the Scottish Government. HMRC plans to use a variety of data sources to ensure that the identification is as accurate as possible; however HMRC’s process for identifying Scottish taxpayers does not rely on having access to this information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/07/2015 16:23:14 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray