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41405

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what contingency plans are in place for the future administration of Premium Bonds currently administered in Scotland and held by residents in England, Northern Ireland and Wales in the event of Scottish independence; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	190813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p><strong>National Savings and Investments (NS&amp;I) is a UK institution, operating from a number of sites within the UK and abroad. </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>The powers governing NS&amp;I products come from UK primary and secondary legislation. Only individuals with a UK bank account are eligible to buy NS&amp;I products. In the event of independence, the current rules would prohibit individuals with only a Scottish bank account from buying NS&amp;I products. </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Any changes to these rules would depend on negotiations between the UK and Scottish governments in the event of independence. Both governments have said that there can be no pre-negotiations on what the terms of independence might be before the referendum takes place.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>The UK government believes that Scotland is better off as part of the UK, and the UK is better off with Scotland in it.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

10021

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2013
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential risk of losses to the public purse arising from applying the current accounting officer conventions in the period leading up to the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Gregg McClymont
	uin	154017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2014 answer text <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.</p><p>The UK Government is not planning for independence as it believes that people in Scotland will vote to remain within the UK. As such, the Government has made no assessment of the risk of losses to the public purse, and has no plans to change accounting officers conventions</p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander grouped question UIN 154018 question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	3949 label Biography information for Gregg McClymont

10022

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2013
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with officials in his Department on how the accounting officers' conventions would apply to investment in Scotland in advance of the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Gregg McClymont
	uin	154018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2014 answer text <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.</p><p>The UK Government is not planning for independence as it believes that people in Scotland will vote to remain within the UK. As such, the Government has made no assessment of the risk of losses to the public purse, and has no plans to change accounting officers conventions</p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander grouped question UIN 154017 question first answered 25/02/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	3949 label Biography information for Gregg McClymont

223544

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost of off-payroll arrangements in government departments and their arm's length bodies was in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	225345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>Information regarding the total cost of off-payroll workers broken down by individual government departments and their arm’s length bodies is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Departmental spending on consultancy, which is one element of total spending on off-payroll workers, is collected by the Cabinet Office. Consultancy spending has reduced by almost three quarters over this Parliament, from £1.2 billion in 2009-10 to £316 million in 2013-14. This followed work to simplify and strengthen the management of consultancy expenditure across government.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Off-payroll workers play an important role in helping public sector organisations meet short term needs for specialist advice and interim services.</p><p> </p><p>It is essential that government employers are able to assure themselves that their higher paid contract workers and most senior staff are meeting their tax obligations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>New tighter rules governing ‘off-payroll’ appointments in central government were established in May 2012 when I, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, published the Review of the Tax Arrangements of Public Sector Appointees.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The recommendations of the Review mean that the most senior staff must go on the payroll, and departments are now able to seek assurance in relation to the tax arrangements of their long-term, high paid contractors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Treasury carried out an evaluation of compliance with the rules which was published on 11 March 2014. This revealed that departments sought assurance on the tax affairs of 1,940 of their contractors, and 125 contracts were terminated or ended and were referred to HMRC for further investigation as a result of these rules. The Treasury has also issued £1.5 million in fines in 2014 to a small number of departments who did not fully comply with the requirements of the guidance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 03/03/2015 15:19:01 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

224818

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2015 to Question 225345, how many of the 125 contractors whose contracts were terminated or ended and were referred to HM Revenue and Customs for further investigation went on to be prosecuted.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	226142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are unable to provide information on individual cases due to tax payer confidentiality. However, HMRC has opened a number of enquiries and in a number of these additional tax was found to be due. The majority of enquiries have now concluded.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC uses its whole compliance tool kit to tackle rule bending and breaking. This includes taskforces through to fraud investigation by both our specialist civil and criminal investigation teams.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 11/03/2015 14:25:40 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

226588

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2015 to Question 226142, how many enquiries were opened and how much additional tax was due to be collected in total as a result of those enquiries.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	227175
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 17/03/2015 17:01:18 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

156178

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Infrastructure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the reason is for the difference in the number of projects and programmes listed in the infrastructure pipeline data published by his Department in 2013 and 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	215093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p>The government’s commitment to supporting infrastructure investment and delivery is a key element of its long-term economic plan. The infrastructure pipeline, now published twice a year, is a forward-looking bottom up assessment of planned infrastructure investment across the public and private sectors. It enhances visibility and certainty for investors and the supply chain and allows government to work more effectively to ensure that the UK’s infrastructure needs are met.</p><p> </p><p>The value of the infrastructure pipeline increased to £383bn at the 2014 summer refresh from £375bn in December 2013.</p><p> </p><p>The infrastructure pipeline published in December 2013 included a number of individual energy projects being considered by developers. However, as set out in the National Infrastructure Plan 2013 and in the pipeline itself, the number of potential projects being considered by developers exceeds expected demand. It is a sign of a competitive market when developers are considering more schemes than will be required, allowing only the most competitive schemes to come forward into development. Weighted assumptions were applied to the overall energy investment figures in the 2013 pipeline to reflect this.</p><p> </p><p>At the summer refresh, to provide as much clarity as possible for industry and investors, it was decided only to name energy projects where a final investment decision or other firm commitment had been made to a project as opposed to the previous approach which was largely based on those projects that had applied for connections. The remainder of the money which is anticipated to be spent in generation was then included in a balancing line. This reflects the fact that the government makes no judgment on the outcome of the competitive process between developers. This change in presentational structure did not affect the underlying modelling assumptions regarding the amount of anticipated investment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The flood section of the pipeline in the December 2013 publication contained a large number of very small projects. At the summer refresh, the smaller schemes were grouped in to the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee programmes, with only the larger schemes being listed out individually. Further details on the full programme of works is available via the Environment Agency website. As with the changes to the energy section of the pipeline, this is for ease of reference and does not reflect any change to the overall level of planned floods investment.</p><p> </p><p>An update of the pipeline will be published alongside the National Infrastructure Plan this December</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 21/11/2014 13:19:43 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

174993

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Coastal Erosion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide additional resources to the devolved administrations to tackle coastal erosion.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	221515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government has prioritised flooding and coastal erosion risk management over the course of this Parliament, and announced at Spending Round 2013 that £2.3 billion will be invested in flood and coastal erosion defences in an unprecedented 6-year programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Coastal erosion is an area of devolved responsibility, and as such it is for the devolved administrations to allocate funds between services according to their own priorities. The Barnett Formula was applied to departmental settlements in the normal way at the Spending Round.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 29/01/2015 17:22:02 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

167422

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Joint Ministerial Committee
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the date was of each meeting of the Finance Quad in each calendar year from 2010; which Ministers from the (a) Government and (b) devolved administrations took part in each such meeting; what the agenda was for each such meeting; and what other topics were discussed at each such meeting.
	tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
	tabling member printed	Michael Moore
	uin	216857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>In this Parliament, the Finance Ministers’ Quadrilateral met on the following dates:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>15 July and 15 September 2010</p><p> </p><p>14 July 2011</p><p> </p><p>5 March and 8 November 2012</p><p> </p><p>3 June and 18 November 2013</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The agenda for Finance Quadrilateral meetings typically covers an update on the UK economy and the circumstances of each of the devolved administrations, as well as examining practical and technical arrangements relating to devolved funding. A list of agenda items covered at each meeting is included in the Annual Reports of the Joint Ministerial Committee.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Treasury Ministers and Finance Ministers from each of the devolved administrations also maintain regular contact throughout the year covering a range of matters of mutual interest</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander grouped question UIN 216856 question first answered 17/12/2014 16:46:24 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	638 label Biography information for Michael Moore

167424

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Joint Exchequer Committee
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on which dates the Joint Exchequer Committee has met; which Ministers from the Government and the Scottish Government attended each such meeting; what the agenda was for each such meeting; and what other topics were discussed at each such meeting.
	tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
	tabling member printed	Michael Moore
	uin	216856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>In this Parliament, the Finance Ministers’ Quadrilateral met on the following dates:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>15 July and 15 September 2010</p><p> </p><p>14 July 2011</p><p> </p><p>5 March and 8 November 2012</p><p> </p><p>3 June and 18 November 2013</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The agenda for Finance Quadrilateral meetings typically covers an update on the UK economy and the circumstances of each of the devolved administrations, as well as examining practical and technical arrangements relating to devolved funding. A list of agenda items covered at each meeting is included in the Annual Reports of the Joint Ministerial Committee.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Treasury Ministers and Finance Ministers from each of the devolved administrations also maintain regular contact throughout the year covering a range of matters of mutual interest</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander grouped question UIN 216857 question first answered 17/12/2014 16:46:24 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
	tabling member	638 label Biography information for Michael Moore