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1728466

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Productivity
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 (a) promote public sector reform and (b) increase public sector productivity.
tabling member constituency	Salisbury
tabling member printed	John Glen
uin	4984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Chancellor has launched a multi-year Spending Review to conclude in Spring 2025 that will establish a new approach to public service reform to drive greater productivity in the public sector.</p><p>The Government will use the Spending Review to change the way public services are delivered by embedding a mission-led approach, driving forward public service reform and making the best use of technology to better deliver services. The Spending Review will set spending plans for a minimum of three years of the five-year forecast period.</p> answering member constituency Bristol North West answering member printed Darren Jones question first answered 18/09/2024 15:51:17 answering member 4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones
tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

1728481

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the burden of business rates on small and medium-sized businesses.
tabling member constituency	Broadland and Fakenham
tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
uin	5108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Recent trends in the rate of the business rates multiplier can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-business-rates" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-business-rates</a>.</p><p> </p><p>A number of reliefs are available to support businesses with their business rate liabilities. The eligibility criteria for them can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-business-rate-relief" target="_blank">GOV.Uk</a>. This includes the Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR) which provides 100% rate relief for eligible properties with rateable values below £12,000 with tapered relief available for eligible properties with rateable values between £12,000 and £15,000. SBRR means that over a third of the smallest non-domestic properties in England pay no business rates.</p><p> </p><p>I am unable to comment on the Welsh business rates system, as business rates is a devolved policy area which means this is a matter for the Welsh government.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray grouped question UIN 5109 question first answered 18/09/2024 14:32:42 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1728482

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of the rate of the business rates multiplier in (a) England and (b) Wales.
tabling member constituency	Broadland and Fakenham
tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
uin	5109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Recent trends in the rate of the business rates multiplier can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-business-rates" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-business-rates</a>.</p><p> </p><p>A number of reliefs are available to support businesses with their business rate liabilities. The eligibility criteria for them can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-business-rate-relief" target="_blank">GOV.Uk</a>. This includes the Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR) which provides 100% rate relief for eligible properties with rateable values below £12,000 with tapered relief available for eligible properties with rateable values between £12,000 and £15,000. SBRR means that over a third of the smallest non-domestic properties in England pay no business rates.</p><p> </p><p>I am unable to comment on the Welsh business rates system, as business rates is a devolved policy area which means this is a matter for the Welsh government.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray grouped question UIN 5108 question first answered 18/09/2024 14:32:42 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1728586

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Valuation Office Agency: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, If she will publish (a) the agreement and (b) the terms of reference between the Welsh Government and the Valuation Office Agency in relation to (i) the Agency's work for a council tax revaluation in Wales and (ii) the development of the Automated Valuation Model in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
tabling member printed	David Simmonds
uin	5154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Welsh Government have previously responded on this matter in June 2024.</p><p>The answers can be viewed here:</p><ul><li><a href="https://record.senedd.wales/WrittenQuestion/93146" target="_blank"><strong>Written Question - WQ93146 - Welsh Parliament (senedd.wales)</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://record.senedd.wales/WrittenQuestion/93148" target="_blank"><strong>Written Question - WQ93148 - Welsh Parliament (senedd.wales)</strong></a><strong> </strong><strong> </strong></li><li><a href="https://record.assembly.wales/WrittenQuestion/93350" target="_blank"><strong>Written Question - WQ93350 - Welsh Parliament (assembly.wales)</strong></a></li></ul> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray grouped question UIN 5156 question first answered 18/09/2024 14:28:50 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4872 label Biography information for David Simmonds

1728588

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Council Tax: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will list (a) each of the variables and (b) the source of data for each variable used in the new Automated Valuation Model for the Valuation Office Agency's council tax revaluation in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
tabling member printed	David Simmonds
uin	5155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The variables used in the AVM model include property attributes, locations, and sales details. While much of this data is sourced from VOA records, the VOA supplement this with data available across Government and through the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement, including from the Office for National Statistics, HM Land Registry and Ordnance Survey.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 18/09/2024 14:30:20 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4872 label Biography information for David Simmonds

1728589

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Council Tax: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the cost to the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) of the council tax revaluation in Wales; and what payments the Welsh Government has (a) made and (b) agreed to make to the VOA to finance this work.
tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
tabling member printed	David Simmonds
uin	5156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Welsh Government have previously responded on this matter in June 2024.</p><p>The answers can be viewed here:</p><ul><li><a href="https://record.senedd.wales/WrittenQuestion/93146" target="_blank"><strong>Written Question - WQ93146 - Welsh Parliament (senedd.wales)</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://record.senedd.wales/WrittenQuestion/93148" target="_blank"><strong>Written Question - WQ93148 - Welsh Parliament (senedd.wales)</strong></a><strong> </strong><strong> </strong></li><li><a href="https://record.assembly.wales/WrittenQuestion/93350" target="_blank"><strong>Written Question - WQ93350 - Welsh Parliament (assembly.wales)</strong></a></li></ul> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray grouped question UIN 5154 question first answered 18/09/2024 14:28:50 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4872 label Biography information for David Simmonds

1728597

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Evasion: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing a system to tackle trends in the level of tax evasion from small businesses.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	5137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling all forms of non-compliance, including evasion. Each year HMRC estimates the size of the tax gap, and the latest published tax gap (2022-23) was 4.8% of theoretical liabilities, or £39.8bn. The element attributable to small businesses is 60% (£24.1bn) of that overall tax gap.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC publishes these estimates in its annual ‘Measuring the Tax Gap’ report. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps</a></p><p> </p><p>Small businesses play a vital role in the UK economy and most businesses pay what they owe. A small minority fail to pay their fair share of tax, thereby depriving public services of vital funding and leading to unfair competition between businesses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 18/09/2024 10:54:09 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1728652

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many positions in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
uin	5194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>There are currently 3 members of HM Treasury staff who have (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity or (d) equality in their job title. We do not hold this information for previous years.</p><p>As the total number of individuals is less than 5, HM Treasury is unable to release salary information as doing so would mean these individuals may be identifiable. This is in line with HM Treasury's data reporting policy.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 18/09/2024 10:52:26 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	5158

1728682

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Council Tax: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) artificial intelligence and (b)machine learning were used in the automated valuation model in the Valuation Office Agency’s work for council tax revaluation in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
tabling member printed	David Simmonds
uin	5224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Automated Valuation Model (AVM) utilises supervised machine learning, where a model is trained using known transaction values. Statistical techniques are used to calculate the impact of the property’s inherent characteristics and location on the value of a property. While the AVM supports the valuation process, its outputs are reviewed and refined by valuers and analysts before making a final judgement on the appropriate band a property is placed in.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 18/09/2024 14:34:09 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4872 label Biography information for David Simmonds

1727906

registered interest
date	06/09/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Private Education: Fees and Charges
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 compatibility of their policy on charging VAT on independent schools with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and in particular with (1) Article 2 of the First Protocol, and (2) Article 14 of the ECHR.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>On 29 July, the Government announced that, as of 1 January 2025, all education services and vocational training provided by private schools in the UK for a charge will be subject to VAT at the standard rate of 20 per cent. This will also apply to boarding services provided by private schools.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has considered the policy’s interaction with Human Rights law, and is confident that it is compatible with the UK’s obligations under the Human Rights Act.</p> answering member printed Lord Livermore question first answered 18/09/2024 13:43:58 answering member 4559 label Biography information for Lord Livermore
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool