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date	07/01/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Divorce: Civil Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the transparency, clarity and regulation of litigation loans for divorces to ensure that customers are fully aware of the implications of those loans before taking them out.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>On 1 April 2014, the Government fundamentally reformed regulation of the consumer credit market, transferring regulatory responsibility to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).</p><p> </p><p>Like other types of credit, litigation funding in the form of credit is regulated by the FCA and therefore its Consumer Credit Sourcebook applies to these products.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA is looking at whether consumer harm needs to be mitigated in this sector and continues to monitor new firms providing credit to fund legal fees.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 14/01/2020 12:46:20 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

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date	26/09/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many enquiries have been conducted on the tax returns of self-assessment taxpayers excluding trusts, partnerships, charities in each financial year since 2008-09.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	291350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>It is not possible to answer the question without incurring disproportionate costs in the time available. HMRC’s central reporting system does not hold the specific data required and therefore HMRC is unable to answer the question.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018-19, HMRC generated £34.1 billion in compliance yield against its target of £30 billion. The number of compliance cases concluded in each of the last three years are shown in the table below (rounded to the nearest 5K):</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Description</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cases Closed</p></td><td><p>580k</p></td><td><p>475k</p></td><td><p>390k</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/10/2019 13:21:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi