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date	26/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Banks: Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to implementing a windfall tax on the excess profits of UK banks.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL2769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>Banks already face an additional rate of tax on their profits in the form of the Bank Corporation Tax Surcharge – meaning they pay 3 percentage points more on their profits (28%) than most other businesses (25%). This is in addition to a charge on the largest banks’ balance sheets in the form of the Bank Levy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 04/03/2024 12:18:18 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

1690977

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date	21/02/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Horizon IT System: Fujitsu
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to investigate whether Fujitsu staff had unauthorised access to the Post Office’s Horizon software system; and, if so, whether there have been any alleged cases of fraud or theft of Post Office funds by Fujitsu staff.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL2690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The independent Post Office Horizon Inquiry was set up – and put on a statutory footing - to review all the evidence to establish a clear account of the implementation and failings of Horizon so that a scandal like this does not happen again.</p><p>Until Sir Wyn’s work is completed, and all the evidence is known, it would be premature for me to comment on every aspect of this scandal alongside this inquiry which is there to get to the bottom of the facts.</p> answering member printed Lord Offord of Garvel question first answered 06/03/2024 12:04:57 answering member 4931 label Biography information for Lord Offord of Garvel
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

1688928

registered interest
date	14/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Property Development: Energy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the incentives required to encourage housing developers to join a voluntary energy-use monitoring scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL2507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that good quality homes are built which meet the energy efficiency standards they were designed to. That is why, as part of the Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation, we are consulting on introducing a post-occupancy fabric performance testing scheme for new homes.</p><p>We are proposing that developers opt-in to performance testing a proportion of their new homes. This would enable us to gather better data on how significantly new homes are underperforming.</p><p>We envisage that many developers will opt-in to the performance testing scheme and have been encouraged by work some developers are already doing to monitor and improve the actual performance of their homes.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook grouped question UIN HL2508 question first answered 27/02/2024 16:49:10 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott

1688929

registered interest
date	14/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Housing: Energy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce mandatory energy performance testing for new homes.
tabling member printed	Lord Truscott
uin	HL2508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that good quality homes are built which meet the energy efficiency standards they were designed to. That is why, as part of the Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation, we are consulting on introducing a post-occupancy fabric performance testing scheme for new homes.</p><p>We are proposing that developers opt-in to performance testing a proportion of their new homes. This would enable us to gather better data on how significantly new homes are underperforming.</p><p>We envisage that many developers will opt-in to the performance testing scheme and have been encouraged by work some developers are already doing to monitor and improve the actual performance of their homes.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook grouped question UIN HL2507 question first answered 27/02/2024 16:49:10 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	3682 label Biography information for Lord Truscott