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1626135

registered interest
date	09/05/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Debts: Developing Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government is taking steps to encourage private lenders to contribute to debt relief efforts for low-income countries facing debt crises.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	184201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>The UK, alongside the G20 and Paris Club, has been clear that private creditors are expected to participate in debt treatments on terms at least as favourable as bilateral (i.e. country) creditors.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the UK has led on innovations to enhance the market-based approach to private debt restructuring, for example by developing new model ‘majority voting provisions’ for private syndicated loans. These promote more efficient restructurings and reduce the ability for creditors to hold out.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 17/05/2023 15:20:56 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1625762

registered interest
date	03/05/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Prisons of 28 March 2023, Official Report, column 811 on Prison Education, whether the Fair Deal pensions policy will apply to staff working for education providers that are classified as public sector bodies.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	183809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2023 answer text <p>The New Fair Deal policy introduced in 2013 does not apply to Further Education providers. Following the recent ONS reclassification of FE colleges as public sector bodies, this policy is under review.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/05/2023 12:57:06 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1623642

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to help maintain the number of free-to-use cash machines.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	182537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>The government is currently taking legislation to protect access to cash across the UK through Parliament as part of the Financial Services and Markets Bill 2022. The legislation will establish the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as the lead regulator for access to cash with responsibility and powers to seek to ensure reasonable provision of withdrawal and deposit facilities.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to the provision of free-to-use ATMs, LINK (the scheme that runs the UK's largest ATM network) has made commitments to protect the broad geographic spread of free-to-use ATMs and is held to account against these commitments by the Payment Systems Regulator. According to LINK data for February 2023, there were 39,500 free-to-use ATMs across the UK. Further information is available at: <a href="https://www.link.co.uk/initiatives/financial-inclusion-monthly-report/" target="_blank">https://www.link.co.uk/initiatives/financial-inclusion-monthly-report/</a></p><p> </p><p>Treasury Ministers have meetings with a wide variety of organisations as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis and are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-giftsand-overseas-travel" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-giftsand-overseas-travel</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith grouped question UIN 182536 question first answered 02/05/2023 10:33:37 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1612214

registered interest
date	19/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	First Time Buyers: Mortgages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to support first time buyers with attaining mortgages.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	181506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to making the aspiration of homeownership a reality for as many households as possible.</p><p> </p><p>The Government operates a range of schemes that aim to increase the supply of low-deposit mortgages for credit-worthy households, including first-time buyers, and stimulate economic growth. This includes the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme, which is open until the end of 2023. The Government also helps first-time buyers to save for a deposit through the Lifetime ISA and Help to Buy: ISA.</p><p> </p><p>Over 829,000 households have been helped to purchase a home since Spring 2010 through Government-backed schemes, with the annual number of first-time buyers at a 20-year high in 2021.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 25/04/2023 13:08:59 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1612273

registered interest
date	19/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Experian: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what redress is available to energy customers who dispute the accuracy of information provided to Experian by energy companies.
tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
uin	181564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>Information on a credit report should be purely factual. For example, if a consumer has incurred arrears with an energy company that shares information with Credit Reference Agencies (CRAs), then these arrears will have been recorded on the consumer’s credit report.</p><p> </p><p>If a consumer believes that an item on their credit report is inaccurate, they can raise a dispute with the CRA they received their report from, or with the organisation that supplied the information. If an organisation fails to correct any inaccuracies with the information that they have supplied to a CRA, a consumer can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO is the UK's independent body set up to uphold information rights, and it enforces the Data Protection Act.</p><p> </p><p>The ICO can tell organisations such as energy companies to help resolve a consumer’s complaint, including requiring an organisation to correct any inaccuracies. The ICO cannot award compensation, even when it gives an opinion that an organisation has broken data protection law. However, consumers have a right to claim compensation from an organisation if they have suffered damage as a result of it breaking data protection law. This includes both material damage, for example where a consumer has lost money, or non-material damage, for example where a consumer has suffered distress. They can do this by contacting the organisation directly or by making a claim in court.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 25/04/2023 13:11:46 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1612396

registered interest
date	19/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Childcare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of good quality childcare on levels of economic productivity.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	181686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>Investing in high quality childcare can support economic growth and productivity, through its impact on parental participation in the labour market and children’s future success in education and in the labour market.</p><p>At Spring Budget 2023, the government announced that it will expand the free childcare hours offer so that eligible working parents in England will be able to access 30 hours of free childcare per week for 38 weeks of the year. HM Treasury does not prepare formal forecasts for the UK economy, including assessments of the impact of the Budget, which are the responsibility of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). As a result of this policy, the OBR estimated around 60,000 to enter employment by 2027-28, as well as increase the hours worked by mothers already in work. The OBR judged this policy to have the largest impact on potential output in this Budget. Further details can be found in the OBR’s latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook published in March 2023: <a href="https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2023/" target="_blank">https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2023/</a></p><p>The government also announced a substantial uplift to the hourly rate paid to providers to deliver the existing free hours offers, providing £204 million in 2023-24, paid from September 2023, and £288 million in 2024-25. This will help providers manage cost pressures, develop the necessary capacity to deliver the new free hours offers, and raise the quality of provision. According to the <a href="https://ifs.org.uk/sites/default/files/output_url_files/R99.pdf" target="_blank">IFS</a>, attending high quality early years settings has a positive impact on children’s future success in education and in the labour market, with higher lifetime earnings.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 26/04/2023 09:15:55 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1612138

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Food: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether raw food materials deemed at risk travelling to Northern Ireland from Great Britain will be subject to a requirement for full customs clearance.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL7246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>We have delivered a unique set of arrangements to facilitate internal UK trade and to remove unacceptable customs processes.</p><p> </p><p>The Windsor Framework expands the number of businesses able to be classed as UK internal traders, who are eligible to be authorised under the new UK Internal Market Scheme. This will allow them to move goods that are ultimately destined to remain in the UK via the customs green lane, following its full implementation in September 2024. Traders moving goods through the green lane will not face burdensome international customs processes, pay tariffs or be subject to routine customs checks.</p><p> </p><p>Where food goods are for retail sale in Northern Ireland, businesses will also be able to register for the Retail Movement Scheme for agrifood goods which will enable them to benefit from a far simplified single SPS document per lorry and face radically reduced agrifood checks.</p><p> </p><p>If goods are destined for the EU, they must move through the red lane and would be subject to the same entry and food standards checks and customs declarations applicable for food movements to the rest of the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 03/05/2023 16:56:30 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1611281

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit: National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Universal Credit claimants have paid voluntary national insurance contributions to cover their time claiming Universal Credit because those credits are not automatically transferred to the electronic National Insurance Recording System in the last year.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	180910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>HMRC does not hold information about the number of customers who have paid voluntary national insurance contributions (NICs) due to their National Insurance record not being updated with the credits they were due while claiming Universal Credit. If customers have paid voluntary NICs unnecessarily, they can be refunded once their record has been updated with their periods of Universal Credit. HMRC is aiming to have all customer NI records for years up to April 2023 updated by the end of the 2023-24 tax year.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/04/2023 15:37:45 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1611338

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Sheep Meat: Overseas Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tonnes of sheep meat were (a) imported to the UK and (b) exported from the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	180966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website (<a href="http://www.uktradeinfo.com/" target="_blank">www.uktradeinfo.com</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Classification codes (according to the Harmonised System) are available to assist in accessing published trade statistics data in the UK Global Tariff.  Goods moving to and from the UK are identified by an eight-digit commodity code. These are publicly available from the <a href="https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/find_commodity" target="_blank">UK Trade Tariff</a>.</p><p><br> The meat of sheep is classified under heading 0204. Subcategories of this code include various cuts of sheep and distinguish between frozen, fresh and chilled. Items containing prepared meats are in other chapters for example sausages are listed within heading 16XX.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of sheep meat exported from and imported to the UK for the last five years is available from the above uktradeinfo website.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/04/2023 17:00:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1610361

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge: Lone Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the number of single income households paying the High Income Child Benefit Charge.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	180494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) is a tax charge which was introduced in 2013 for recipients of Child Benefit payments on higher incomes. The HICBC applies to Child Benefit recipients who have, or whose partner has, an income of £50,000, regardless of family makeup.</p><p> </p><p>An estimate of the number of single-parent households paying the tax charge is not available as HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does not routinely collect information on people’s marital status or the circumstances of individuals in a household.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 180495 question first answered 24/04/2023 16:34:04 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney