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1605348

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date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Music Venues: Tax Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for granting tax relief for grassroots music venues to grant them parity with theatres, orchestras and other cultural institutions.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL6604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises the value of the UK’s world leading creative industries and arts sectors.</p><p> </p><p>The objective of the creative industry tax reliefs is to support and incentivise production rather than to support venues themselves.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all tax policy under review and regularly receives proposals for new tax reliefs. When considering a new tax relief, the Government must ensure it supports businesses in a fair way and that taxpayer money is effectively targeted. A tax relief for grassroots music venues is not currently under consideration.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 29/03/2023 13:03:14 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1605357

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how they ensure that the correct tax is paid by small high street businesses, such as barbers and nail salons, that only accept cash for their goods and services and do not provide receipts.
tabling member printed	Baroness Buscombe
uin	HL6615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to creating a level playing field for all sectors by ensuring that everyone pays the right amount of tax at the right time. Like all other businesses, those which exclusively accept cash must meet their tax obligations.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s approach to tax evasion aims to tackle current non-compliance and change future behaviours. Their activities include national campaigns and specialist task forces that incorporate intensive bursts of activity in targeted high risk trade sectors (including the retail and service industry) and locations across the UK. HMRC also works with customer groups and third parties, such as other local and central Government agencies, to reduce error and fraud within these sectors. This includes providing customer education highlighting the importance of keeping accurate records.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC take any report of suspected tax evasion seriously and operate a confidential Fraud Telephone Hotline and an online reporting tool available on GOV.UK.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 29/03/2023 13:02:15 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe

1605371

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to make the Government Gateway more accessible for new users.
tabling member printed	Lord Lipsey
uin	HL6633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>Before a customer can interact with HMRC online services we need to be confident that the customer has the right to do so and that customer data is suitably protected. Core tools that help HMRC to gain this confidence are:</p><ul><li>Identity Verification (IV): What is the real world identity of the user accessing the online services</li><li>Authentication: Confidence that a returning user is the same user who created the original account</li></ul><p> </p><p>HMRC currently use Government Gateway and HMRC Identity Service for online authentication and identity verification respectively but are planning to migrate to a new service titled Gov.UK One Login.</p><p> </p><p>Gov.UK One Login is a cross-Government service being developed by Government Digital Service (GDS). The service aims to simplify access to all Government services by allowing a customer to prove their identity once and to then re-use that identity. This reduces the barrier created in requiring customers to prove their identity multiple times across different Government departments.</p><p> </p><p>Accessibility and inclusivity are a priority for the programme and GDS have a plan of activity to improve inclusion over time. Examples include:</p><ul><li>A wider selection of data sources and options for a customer to use to prove their identity</li><li>Offline channels available to those who cannot use the online offering</li></ul><p> </p><p>This intention to migrate to Gov.UK One Login as the cross-Government strategic solution means that HMRC will limit any activity to increase accessibility within Government Gateway and the internal HMRC identity verification services. This is due to the limited remaining window to gain benefit from improvements to those services and the need to avoid duplication of effort.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 29/03/2023 13:05:10 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	2492 label Biography information for Lord Lipsey

1605372

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Complaints
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many complaints they have received about difficulty accessing the Government Gateway.
tabling member printed	Lord Lipsey
uin	HL6634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The HMRC Technical help desk received 508 complaints for the period March 2022 to March 2023.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 30/03/2023 10:18:44 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	2492 label Biography information for Lord Lipsey

1605380

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Silicon Valley Bank UK
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Penn on 14 March (HL Deb col 1282), what exemptions to the Banking Act 2009 they granted to HSBC as part of its purchase of Silicon Valley Bank.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL6646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>On Monday March 13, the government, in consultation with the Bank of England, used its powers under the Banking Act 2009 to broaden an existing exemption in ring-fencing legislation to facilitate HSBC’s purchase of SVB UK. This has allowed HSBC’s ring-fenced bank to provide preferential intra-group lending to SVB UK and ensured SVB UK has the necessary liquidity to continue operating.</p><p> </p><p>Separately, as a result of this existing provision in legislation, SVB UK will be exempt from ring-fencing requirements for a four-year transition period. The government intends to lay in due course another statutory instrument to extend this exemption beyond the four-year transition period, subject to conditions. This exemption will ensure that SVB UK can remain a commercially viable stand-alone business as part of HSBC group. HSBC itself remains subject to the ring-fencing regime.</p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 29/03/2023 13:03:42 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1605385

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Infrastructure Bank
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what projects the UK Infrastructure Bank has considered in the last 13 months; what lending the Bank has provided to local government for large and complex projects since its incorporation; whether the Bank has been administratively classified; and if so, by what criteria this has been effected.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL6651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) was launched in June 2021 to provide infrastructure finance to tackle climate change and support regional and local economic growth across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Bank is an operationally independent institution and responsible for making its own investment decisions within the scope of its remit. The disclosure of information related to the projects the Bank has considered is market sensitive and therefore not shared publicly.</p><p> </p><p>The UKIB has made two loans to local authorities since 2021, including a £107 million loan to Tees Valley Combined Authority for the construction of the South Bank Quay and a £10 million loan to the West Midlands Combined Authority for green sprint bus infrastructure. The UKIB also supports local authorities through the continued rollout of its advisory service which has pilots underway in Bristol, Greater Manchester, and West Yorkshire.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2022, the Cabinet Office approved the administrative classification of UKIB as a Non-Departmental Public Body, sponsored by HM Treasury, with effect from June 2021. The UKIB Framework Document will be updated to reflect this classification after the UKIB Bill receives Royal Assent.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 30/03/2023 10:21:20 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1605401

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the percentage of manufactured goods that are transported from Great Britain for end use in Northern Ireland and are for companies with a turnover in excess of £2 million.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL6656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text The Windsor Framework significantly expands the number of businesses able to be classed as internal UK traders and move goods through the green lane. For manufacturing and processing companies, the existing £500,000 turnover limit will be quadrupled to £2 million, meaning around four-fifths of manufacturing and processing companies in Northern Ireland who trade with Great Britain will automatically be in scope of using the green lane.<p> </p><p> </p>Companies moving goods into NI for processing or manufacturing for use in the animal feed, healthcare, construction, not-for-profit and food sectors may also be eligible to move such goods in the green lane even if the company has a turnover in excess of £2 million.<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>Movements of goods not eligible for the green lane, but which can be demonstrated not to have entered the EU Single Market, will be able to benefit from a new tariff reimbursement scheme. answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 29/03/2023 13:01:47 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1605408

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Mobility Scooters: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Invamed Group and Others v. HMRC judgment In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) on appeal from the Upper Tribunal Tax and Chancery Chambers Mr Justice Birss and Judge Roger Berner [2018] UKUT 305 (TCC) 2018 WL 04685885 of 25 February 2020, Neutral Citation Number: [2020] EWCA Civ 243 / Case No: A3/2018/2938, for what reason his Department is applying import VAT on mobility scooters.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	169231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>The chargeability of import VAT depends on the customs classification of a good. The correct classification for mobility scooters imported into the UK since August 2009 is under heading 8703, which is chargeable to import VAT. This did not change when the UK left the EU, with a specific legally binding Additional Chapter Note to clarify the UK legal position. The court case referred to is in respect of the classification of those goods imported between 2004 and 2007, during which time the court held that a different classification of 8713 was appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 28/03/2023 10:00:01 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

1605424

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether all callers to HMRC are charged the same rate.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	169422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>Phone providers set telephone call charges, including for calls to HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>For more information on telephone call charges, please refer to the GOV.UK website here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/call-charges" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/call-charges</em></a><em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 27/03/2023 14:10:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1605435

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Help to Buy Scheme: Individual Savings Accounts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the impact of the help to buy ISA scheme on house prices.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	169416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>The Help to Buy: ISA’s property price cap of £250,000 for properties outside London (£450,000 within London) allows the Government to target support more precisely at the people the scheme is intended to help. Since its launch in 2015, the scheme has supported 531,507 property completions across the UK, with a mean property value of £176,828 compared with an average first-time buyer house price of £245,350.</p><p>Further information on the Government’s home purchase support schemes can be found at: <a href="https://www.ownyourhome.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://www.ownyourhome.gov.uk</a></p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 27/03/2023 14:12:12 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury