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731965

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Banks: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to provide guidance on limiting the number of UK registered bankers earning over one million euros; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to issue guidance on limiting the number of UK registered bankers earning over one million euros.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is at the forefront of global efforts to tackle unacceptable pay practices in the banking sector and has the toughest regime on pay of any major financial centre.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 30/06/2017 11:31:32 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

731169

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress the Government has made on allocating the Equitable Life Payment Scheme funds to policyholders.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	72
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>The Equitable Life Payment Scheme is closed to new claims and the government issued the final progress report in November 2016. This report sets out the details regarding the volume and value of payments made, and a copy can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/equitable-life-payment-scheme-final-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/equitable-life-payment-scheme-final-report</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 30/06/2017 11:37:14 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

731363

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will lift the one per cent pay cap.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the comments made by the Chancellor regarding the public sector pay cap during the debate on the Queen’s speech on 29 June. Link to those exchanges is available at <a href="http://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-06-29/debates/D199DEF4-2B92-4D43-BF7D-01F7D98591A3/EconomyAndJobs" target="_blank">http://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-06-29/debates/D199DEF4-2B92-4D43-BF7D-01F7D98591A3/EconomyAndJobs</a></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 30/06/2017 12:53:19 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

731395

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the non-consensual sex exemption in relation to child tax credits on the safety of women and children in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	14
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not consider that this exception will impact on the safety of women and children in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 30/06/2017 12:44:31 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

731605

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Self-employed: Cooperatives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to facilitate and encourage self-organisation and cooperatives for self-employed people.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government is supportive of the co-operatives sector, including where this model can benefit the self-employed and help their businesses to grow.</p><p> </p><p>To help self-employed people, the British Business Bank facilitates the provision of finance at all stages of a business’ development. In addition, the Industrial Strategy announced the launch of the Entrepreneurship Review and the Scale-Up Taskforce to make the UK the best place in the world to start and grow a business.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government continues to explore further ways to support the co-operatives sector. For example, at Spring Budget 2017, the Government announced that thresholds at which co-operatives will have to conduct a full audit will increase in line with those for companies. This will place co-operative and community benefit societies on a level playing field with companies of the same size.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 30/06/2017 11:30:47 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

731613

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the Government will provide funding to local authorities for the installation of sprinklers and other fire safety measures in high-rise flats.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>All social landlords have been instructed to carry out fire safety checks on tower blocks and ensure the appropriate safety and response measures are in place. This is being done in co-operation with local fire and rescue services. We are testing cladding in all relevant tower blocks. It is the landlord’s responsibility to ensure that people are safe through funding fire safety improvements. Where works are necessary to ensure the fire safety of a building, we will ensure that lack of financial resources will not prevent them going ahead.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 30/06/2017 12:52:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves