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date	16/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Football Pools: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reduce pool betting duty from 15 per cent to 10 per cent.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no current plans to reduce Pool Betting Duty. Reducing it to 10% is likely to have a negligible effect on The Football Pools, but could put revenue at risk particularly through incentivising the switching of products from fixed odds bets to pooled bets.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury however keeps all taxes, including Pool Betting Duty, under active review.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 22/10/2019 12:47:19 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1150158

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date	16/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury uses ONS wellbeing statistics to inform health and wellbeing policy within the department. The Treasury also measures personal wellbeing through the annual Civil Service People Survey using the same national statistics that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) use for the UK population as a whole. The survey includes personal wellbeing questions covering life satisfaction, worthwhile, happiness and anxiety.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Over the past year the department has implemented the following initiatives to support well-being: access to the Wellbeing Gateway that includes quick guides and links to policy and support for the most common wellbeing issues, development of a Wellbeing Hub detailing all the wellbeing and resilience support and training available; provision of ‘Wellbeing Confident Leader’ workshops to the senior civil service (SCS) staff and introduction of the Stress Talking Toolkit to help with the difficult conversations around stress and mental health.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 25/10/2019 07:48:43 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane