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1694020

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2024
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Economic Situation: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the strength of the economy in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	901758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text Scotland’s economy grew in 2023 and our back to work plan is working with fewer people inactive. We have achieved this alongside our priority of halving inflation.<p>I’m sure my Honourable Friend was also pleased to hear the growth measures we will take to keep Scotland prospering that were announced at the Budget today.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 06/03/2024 14:23:10 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1673264

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Hospitality Industry: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of Scottish hospitality businesses per sector have submitted requests to split their quarterly VAT payments in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	3913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>I believe that my honourable friend is referring to the recent consultation on an “Alternative Method of VAT Collection - Split Payment”. The consultation has now closed, and HMRC and HMT are taking this forward. You can see the full details here:</p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fconsultations%2Falternative-method-of-vat-collection-split-payment&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cdavid.g.piper%40hmrc.gov.uk%7C5437b0ae99504b195d3808dbf188947c%7Cac52f73cfd1a4a9a8e7a4a248f3139e1%7C0%7C0%7C638369341135314399%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=IlobKoEJFsjhGXuEdFVYRx01SE%2BFOMtL1GWd7%2FoP%2BIM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/alternative-method-of-vat-collection-split-payment</a></p><p> </p><p>You may be interested to know that information on numbers of businesses in the trade sectors is published in the Annual UK VAT Statistics, which can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/value-added-tax-vat-annual-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/value-added-tax-vat-annual-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>Further information is also available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/scottish-vat-assignment-experimental-statistics/scottish-vat-assignment-experimental-statistics-2020#about-this-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/scottish-vat-assignment-experimental-statistics/scottish-vat-assignment-experimental-statistics-2020#about-this-release</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 05/12/2023 11:45:33 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1300798

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2021
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Jobcentres: Forres
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support she is providing to Forres Job Centre to further assist unemployed people.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	165642
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>Through our Plan for Jobs, the Department is providing broad ranging support for all jobseekers. Currently, support includes the Kickstart scheme, Job Finding Support, Sector Based Work Academy Programmes and Job Entry Targeted Support in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the government is investing an additional £150 million into the Flexible Support Fund, which will increase the capacity of the Rapid Response Service, supporting people through redundancy and providing additional local support to claimants by removing barriers to work such as travel expenses for attending interviews and child care.</p><p> </p><p>Our Jobcentre Work Coaches provide support on finding a job, help with retraining or skills advice, CV, job applications and access to the new vacancies we record every day, as well as signposting to our Jobhelp website.</p><p> </p><p>To date, in Scotland, the Department has recruited 823 Work Coaches since March 2020, bringing the total number of Work Coaches in Scotland to 2,255. Within the Morayshire Cluster (Forres, Elgin and Buckie Jobcentres) six new Work Coaches have joined team with a further six due to start shortly.</p><p> </p><p>The Morayshire Cluster works closely with the Moray Pathways which is a consortium of partners and providers across Moray offering customers skills, training, employment support. We deliver a multi-agency service to support our younger customers move forward towards employment from the Moray Community Hub.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 165643 165644 question first answered 22/03/2021 13:50:47 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1300799

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2021
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Jobcentres: Elgin
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support she is providing to Elgin Job Centre to further assist unemployed people.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	165643
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>Through our Plan for Jobs, the Department is providing broad ranging support for all jobseekers. Currently, support includes the Kickstart scheme, Job Finding Support, Sector Based Work Academy Programmes and Job Entry Targeted Support in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the government is investing an additional £150 million into the Flexible Support Fund, which will increase the capacity of the Rapid Response Service, supporting people through redundancy and providing additional local support to claimants by removing barriers to work such as travel expenses for attending interviews and child care.</p><p> </p><p>Our Jobcentre Work Coaches provide support on finding a job, help with retraining or skills advice, CV, job applications and access to the new vacancies we record every day, as well as signposting to our Jobhelp website.</p><p> </p><p>To date, in Scotland, the Department has recruited 823 Work Coaches since March 2020, bringing the total number of Work Coaches in Scotland to 2,255. Within the Morayshire Cluster (Forres, Elgin and Buckie Jobcentres) six new Work Coaches have joined team with a further six due to start shortly.</p><p> </p><p>The Morayshire Cluster works closely with the Moray Pathways which is a consortium of partners and providers across Moray offering customers skills, training, employment support. We deliver a multi-agency service to support our younger customers move forward towards employment from the Moray Community Hub.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 165642 165644 question first answered 22/03/2021 13:50:47 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1300800

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2021
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Jobcentres: Buckie
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support she is providing to Buckie Job Centre to further assist unemployed people.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	165644
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>Through our Plan for Jobs, the Department is providing broad ranging support for all jobseekers. Currently, support includes the Kickstart scheme, Job Finding Support, Sector Based Work Academy Programmes and Job Entry Targeted Support in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the government is investing an additional £150 million into the Flexible Support Fund, which will increase the capacity of the Rapid Response Service, supporting people through redundancy and providing additional local support to claimants by removing barriers to work such as travel expenses for attending interviews and child care.</p><p> </p><p>Our Jobcentre Work Coaches provide support on finding a job, help with retraining or skills advice, CV, job applications and access to the new vacancies we record every day, as well as signposting to our Jobhelp website.</p><p> </p><p>To date, in Scotland, the Department has recruited 823 Work Coaches since March 2020, bringing the total number of Work Coaches in Scotland to 2,255. Within the Morayshire Cluster (Forres, Elgin and Buckie Jobcentres) six new Work Coaches have joined team with a further six due to start shortly.</p><p> </p><p>The Morayshire Cluster works closely with the Moray Pathways which is a consortium of partners and providers across Moray offering customers skills, training, employment support. We deliver a multi-agency service to support our younger customers move forward towards employment from the Moray Community Hub.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 165642 165643 question first answered 22/03/2021 13:50:47 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1256940

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What level of financial support his Department has provided to Scotland in the Spending Review 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	909610
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>Spending Review 2020 is for the whole of the UK. For Scotland, SR20 confirms an additional £2.4 billion for the Scottish Government on top of its baseline for 2021-22, building on an unprecedented upfront guarantee of £8.2 billion in 2020-21 to support the Covid response; SR20 confirms several UK-wide programmes, such as for vaccines, green growth clusters, offshore wind capacity and digital infrastructure, which will benefit people and businesses in Scotland; SR20 also provides targeted support by reprofiling City and Growth Deals in Moray, Tay Cities, Borderlands and the Scottish Islands from 15 to 10 years to accelerate investment in local economic priorities.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 01/12/2020 16:51:36 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1167425

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Moray
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the local economy in Moray constituency of (a) spending and (b) investment by (i) his Department and (ii) the armed forces since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	7761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence's (MOD) over-riding priority is to provide national security for the UK as a whole and its extensive regional footprint exists to provide UK national security.</p><p>Spending or investment decisions are appraised on the basis of costs and benefits to UK society overall irrespective of the location of the expenditure, as required by HM Treasury Green Book.</p><p>The department does not routinely undertake assessments of the effect of national spending or investment decisions on local economies.</p><p>MOD Regional Expenditure with UK Industry and Commerce and Supported Employment is published at the Government Office Regional level as a National Statistic at the following link:</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/774871/Finance_and_economics_annual_statistical_bulletin_201718.pdf</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 7715 7723 7738 7772 7783 7790 7794 7796 question first answered 04/11/2019 16:25:40 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1141687

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Emergency Services Network
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff have been employed in the programme team to deliver the Emergency Services Network, in each month since that Network was established.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	281773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/09/2019 16:55:37 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1141691

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Airwave Service and Emergency Services Network: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria his Department plans to use to allow police forces to assess the comparative performance of Emergency Services Network and Airwave.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	281776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The Home Department has already committed to respond to the Hon. Member for Moray and the Home Affairs Select Committee in writing on this issue, within the required timescale.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 14:34:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross

1137340

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Maritime Patrol Aircraft: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What progress is being made on the delivery to the UK of the Poseidon MRA Mk1 (P-8A) aircraft.
	tabling member constituency	Moray
	tabling member printed	Douglas Ross
	uin	911783
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>Initial build of the first UK aircraft is complete. Painted in RAF livery, its first flight is scheduled for later this week. Delivery, as the RAF’s first P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, is expected in October. Manufacture of the second aircraft, for delivery in January 2020, is under way.</p><p> </p><p>The first two aircrew courses have graduated and engineering training is ongoing. Construction of support infrastructure at RAF Lossiemouth is also continuing apace, so significant progress is being made.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 08/07/2019 16:32:22 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	4627 label Biography information for Douglas Ross