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917165

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Life Insurance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has held recent discussions with the insurance industry on consumer rights relating to life insurance products; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	149633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>The government remains in regular discussion with the insurance industry, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and other interested parties on the functioning of the insurance industry in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The government is focused on ensuring that everyone has access to suitable insurance products.</p><p> </p><p>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is directly responsible for regulating and supervising the financial services industry, including insurance firms. It sets the conduct standards required of insurers, which aim to ensure that consumers are treated fairly and can access appropriate insurance products.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 12/06/2018 14:07:03 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

922515

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Students: Private Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June to Question 149630 on student private rented housing; what estimate his Department has made of the expected contribution to the public purse of the removal of tax advantages from holding UK property through offshore companies.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	152687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>At Budget 2016 it was announced that, from July 2016, offshore property developers would be taxed on all the profits they make from developing UK land. The latest estimate of this measure’s yield is set out on page 212 of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook: March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The government announced at Autumn Budget 2017 that from April 2019 non-residents would be taxed on all the gains they make from UK land and buildings and from April 2020 the rental income received by offshore companies would be subject to the same tax rules and rates which apply to property income as UK companies. The estimated yield of these measures is set out in table 2.1 of the Autumn Budget 2017 document.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/06/2018 15:18:29 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

922516

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Students: Private Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June to Question 149631 on students: private rented housing, whether he plans to devise a method to identify businesses that collect rental income from student accommodation.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	152688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>HMRC do not collect this information because identifying lettings expressly to students rather than to other persons does not lead to any specific tax effect.</p><p> </p><p>Collection of this further information by HMRC would require businesses to identify and distinguish between income received from the rental of student accommodation and that received through other rentals. This would impose additional reporting obligations on businesses.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/06/2018 15:16:55 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1284183

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Union Learning Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will allocate funding in the 2021 Budget to the Union Learning Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	149177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The government will publish the Budget on Wednesday 3 March 2021. The Budget will set out the next phase of the plan to tackle the virus and protect jobs and will be published alongside the latest forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 09/02/2021 11:41:20 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1310511

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Housing: Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the costs to the public purse of leaseholders (a) losing their home and (b) declaring bankruptcy as a result of the costs of resolving fire safety issues.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	184379
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text The Chancellor of the Exchequer liaises with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on a wide range of issues, including on the Government’s £5 billion investment in building safety.<p> </p><p>On 10 February 2021, the Government announced a 5-point plan for investment in building safety, with £3.5 billion earmarked for the removal of unsafe cladding on high-rise residential buildings, as well as a new finance scheme for cladding removal on buildings between 11 and 18 metres where no leaseholder will ever pay more than £50 a month.</p><p> </p><p>These measures will provide certainty to residents and lenders, boosting the housing market and helping to ensure that developers, investors and building owners who have the means make a fair contribution to costs of remediation, without passing on costs to leaseholders.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 26/04/2021 09:49:38 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1339902

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tourism and Travel: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2021 to Question 12080 on Tourism and Travel: Coronavirus, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of replicating travel agent support packages seen in some European countries that (a) refund lost commissions and (b) give sector specific grants of a percentage of usual turnover.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	21841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>The government appreciates the significant disruption the pandemic has had on travel agents and companies facing difficulties can draw upon the unprecedented package of measures announced by the Chancellor including, the COVID loans schemes and extended furlough.</p><p>In England, travel agents can benefit from the £5 billion package of grant support announced at Budget. This includes Restart Grants worth up to £6,000 if classified as non-essential retail or up to £18,000 if classified as a leisure or accommodation business. This package of support also includes the £425 million top-up to the Additional Restrictions Grant which has already provided Local Authorities (LAs) with £1.6 billion. This funding is at the LAs discretion and is intended to support businesses which are not eligible for Restart Grants, but which are nonetheless experiencing a severe impact on their business.</p><p>The government continues to review all the economic support schemes, including grant support, as the public health response evolves.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 29/06/2021 14:34:57 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1188247

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Red Diesel: Local Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2020 to Question 28573 in Red Diesel, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the potential effect of changes to the tax treatment of red diesel on local government.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	37521
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>To help the Government tackle climate change and improve the UK’s air quality, the Chancellor announced at Budget 2020 that the Government will remove the entitlement to use red diesel from April 2022, except in agriculture, fish farming, rail and non-commercial heating (including domestic heating). This change is designed to incentivise users of polluting fuels in both the public and private sector to improve the energy efficiency of their vehicles and machinery or look for greener alternatives.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that these changes to the tax treatment of red diesel may affect some public sector bodies, such as local government, and will therefore engage with them closely later this year as part of its consultation on these changes. While the Government expects them to reduce diesel consumption, the Treasury will discuss pressures that arise with affected departments as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review scheduled for later this year.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the policy costings document published alongside Budget 2020, the red diesel costing accounts for an increase in the overall resource spending envelope of £150 million per annum departmental spending to account for the fact that part of the costs of the policy will fall upon the public sector.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 37520 37522 question first answered 27/04/2020 13:08:08 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1188246

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Red Diesel: Local Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2020 to Question 28573 on Red Diesel, what discussions he has had with representatives of the Local Government Association on the potential effect of changes to the tax treatment of red diesel on local government.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	37520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>To help the Government tackle climate change and improve the UK’s air quality, the Chancellor announced at Budget 2020 that the Government will remove the entitlement to use red diesel from April 2022, except in agriculture, fish farming, rail and non-commercial heating (including domestic heating). This change is designed to incentivise users of polluting fuels in both the public and private sector to improve the energy efficiency of their vehicles and machinery or look for greener alternatives.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that these changes to the tax treatment of red diesel may affect some public sector bodies, such as local government, and will therefore engage with them closely later this year as part of its consultation on these changes. While the Government expects them to reduce diesel consumption, the Treasury will discuss pressures that arise with affected departments as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review scheduled for later this year.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the policy costings document published alongside Budget 2020, the red diesel costing accounts for an increase in the overall resource spending envelope of £150 million per annum departmental spending to account for the fact that part of the costs of the policy will fall upon the public sector.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 37521 37522 question first answered 27/04/2020 13:08:08 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1365621

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Defibrillators: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2021 to Question 60363, what the cost to the public purse would be of removing VAT on automated external defibrillators.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	68145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>HMRC does not hold information on VAT revenue from specific products or services. Businesses are not required to provide figures at a product level on their VAT returns, as this would impose an excessive administrative burden.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 08/11/2021 14:04:29 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1367334

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Defibrillators: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2021 to Question 68145 and the Answer of the 26 October 2021 to question 60363, on what evidential basis his Department concluded that reviewing legislation on VAT on automated external defibrillators would impose significant additional pressure on the public finances in the absence of a specific cost-benefit analysis.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	72369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government has received over £50 billion worth of requests for relief from VAT since the EU referendum. Any new VAT relief would come at a cost to the exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>There are existing VAT reliefs in place to aid the purchase of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), including VAT relief on purchases made by local authorities and those made through voluntary contributions, where the AED is donated to eligible charities or the NHS.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 16/11/2021 14:33:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne