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1139678

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Freeports
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 role of free ports in tackling global tax avoidance and evasion.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	278534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Free Trade Zones and ports play a clear role in facilitating legitimate international trade, but where there is lax oversight or weak governance they are susceptible to abuse by transnational criminal networks. Under the joint leadership of HMRC and the US Department of Homeland Security, the OECD Countering Illicit Trade Taskforce has made significant progress in developing draft guidance on measures to enhance the transparency of Free Trade Zones, so as to promote clean and fair trade and to make them unattractive to people and organisations looking to conduct tax evasion and commit crime.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/07/2019 15:58:56 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1139730

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Incinerators: Taxation
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 (a) financial and (b) environmental merits of an incineration tax for household waste.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	278608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>A number of respondents to last year’s call for evidence on single use plastic waste suggested that an incineration tax could discourage incineration and promote more environmentally beneficial forms of waste management.</p><p>At Budget 2018, the Chancellor announced that he would not at this point be taking forward a tax on the incineration of waste. However, should wider policies not deliver the government’s waste ambitions, government will consider the introduction of such a tax, in conjunction with landfill tax, taking account of the possible impacts on local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/07/2019 15:22:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1139731

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Raw Materials: Taxation
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 effect on revenue of a tax on virgin materials including on plastics.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	278609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>At Budget 2018, the government announced its intention to tackle the scourge of single-use plastic waste through the introduction of a new tax on plastic packaging which does not contain a sufficient amount of recycled content, taking effect from April 2022. This world-leading new tax will provide a clear economic incentive for businesses to use more recycled material in the production of packaging, instead of using virgin plastic. It will achieve similar objectives to a tax on virgin plastics, but in a more targeted and effective way.</p><p> </p><p>Earlier this year, the government launched a consultation seeking views on the initial proposed design for the tax. This closed in May and the government intends to publish a summary of responses in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/07/2019 15:20:36 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1139740

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Corporation Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to lower the corporation tax rate for small businesses.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	278356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Since 2010 the Government has successively reduced the UK Corporation Tax rate to support businesses, both large and small. Now at 19%, the UK Corporation Tax rate is currently the lowest in the G20, and in April 2020 it will be lowered further from 19% to 17%.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/07/2019 16:00:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1139741

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Disclosure of Information
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 merits of scrapping quarterly reporting for businesses with a turnover of under £85,000.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	278357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>There have been no changes to the reporting requirements for businesses below the VAT threshold. Making Tax Digital (MTD) applies only to VAT registered businesses above the £85,000 VAT threshold.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has been clear that any move to extend MTD would happen only after it has assurance that the MTD for VAT service is working well, and will therefore not be mandating MTD for any new taxes or businesses in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/07/2019 15:48:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1139757

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much time off in lieu has been taken by staff in his Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	278377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. It is the responsibility of line managers to ensure employees are not working excessive hours.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury operates a flexible working hours scheme which allows staff to take time off in lieu at a later date if they work over agreed working hours, within agreed limits, and ensuring compliance with the Working Time Regulations 1998. Where it is not appropriate or possible to take time off in lieu of hours worked, staff may be paid for these additional hours at plain time rate, in line with our overtime policy.</p><p> </p><p>It is in the interests of the health, safety and wellbeing of our staff that work in excess of the normal hours of duty in a week should not be consistently required. We are keen to ensure that all staff enjoy a good work life balance and are currently upskilling our Senior Civil Service in managing staff wellbeing – as of December 2018 we had already achieved 78% attendance. It is with this in mind that we strongly recommend that time off in lieu be taken in the event of working excess hours. However, it is recognised that from time to time, this may be unavoidable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/07/2019 15:24:34 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1139824

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the proportion of companies that need economic operator and registration identification numbers have them.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	278591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Data on the proportion of companies that need Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) numbers is not readily available. Using 2018 trade in goods data, HM Revenue and Customs estimate that around two thirds of the total value of trade undertaken only with the EU was carried out by VAT registered businesses which solely trade with the EU, and which have now registered for an EORI number.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/07/2019 15:59:03 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1139275

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Manufacturing Industries: Government Guaranteed Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of credit guarantees provided by the Government to the manufacturing industry in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	277654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the vital role that manufacturing plays in the UK economy. Therefore, we support the sector in a number of ways, including through the provision of several credit guarantee schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Please see below for an indication of the support made available to the manufacturing industry over the last 10 financial years through credit guarantee schemes. This includes data on the flow of credit guarantees from UK Export Finance, and the British Business Bank (since its establishment in 2014/15).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Manufacturing £m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/2010</p></td><td><p>1,930</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/2011</p></td><td><p>1,877</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/2012</p></td><td><p>1,798</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>2,284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>1,044</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td><p>1,215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/2016</p></td><td><p>554</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/2017</p></td><td><p>1,784</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/2018</p></td><td><p>1,297</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/2019</p></td><td><p>3,734</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This data has been identified from credit guarantees to the manufacturing sector using the standard industrial classification (SIC) as used by the Office for National Statistics, where possible. This does not include other forms of credit support, such as the Repayable Launch Investments.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to manufacturing-specific support, the Government also supports various programmes to help businesses access the finance they need through the British Business Bank.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/07/2019 15:17:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1139278

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Tax Burden
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 merits of (a) reducing and (b) simplifying the tax burden for independent retailers.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	277669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>At Budget 2018 the Government introduced a Retail discount which cuts small retailers’ business rates bills by a third for two years from April 2019. This is worth over £1 billion to businesses. The Government has also doubled the threshold for Small Business Rate Relief from April 2017 benefitting the smallest retail properties. This means 675,000 of the smallest businesses now pay no rates at all.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to a fair tax system that is simple to understand and easy to comply with. The Office of Tax Simplification provides independent advice to the Chancellor on simplifying the tax system.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/07/2019 16:01:29 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1139297

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Islam
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of using sukuk to finance infrastructure projects; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	277781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text The proceeds from the Sukuk, like the proceeds from the wider gilt programme, flow into the consolidated fund. This is used for general expenditure, including expenditure on infrastructure. The government considers the core gilt program rather than the Sukuk to be the most cost-effective way of raising money for expenditure, including that of infrastructure projects. The main purpose behind the decision to issue a second Sukuk is to reaffirm the government’s commitment to the UK being the Western hub for Islamic finance, whilst also providing high-quality liquid assets to UK-based Islamic banks. answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 277616 question first answered 22/07/2019 14:01:35 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown