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1146740

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Borders: Northern Ireland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to install electronic detection border equipment in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL17881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government has been resolute in its commitments to Northern Ireland. This includes protecting the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement in all its parts and ensuring there will be no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. The Government will not introduce new physical infrastructure, which would include electronic detection border equipment, on the land border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 08/10/2019 11:55:55 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1145212

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Stamp Duty Land Tax: Foreign Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to make an assessment of the level of investment in programmes to tackle rough sleeping that would result by imposing either (1) a one per cent stamp duty surcharge on non-resident property purchases, or (2) a three per cent stamp duty surcharge on non-resident property purchases; if so, when; and if not, why not.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bird
	uin	HL17739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government announced at Budget 2018 a new Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) surcharge of one per cent on non-residents buying residential property in England and Northern Ireland. This will help control house price growth and so help ensure those resident in the UK can get on the housing ladder.</p><p> </p><p>A costing for how much the surcharge will raise will be produced at a future fiscal event once the final design of the surcharge has been confirmed. This costing will follow the usual process for analysing the revenue impacts of new tax measures, including being subject to scrutiny from the Office for Budget Responsibility.</p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to ending rough sleeping. The Chancellor announced £54m of new funding to reduce homelessness and rough sleeping in last week’s Spending Round. This takes total resource funding to £422m next year – a real terms increase of 13%.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 09/09/2019 15:39:02 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

1145224

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Intellectual Property
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their report Getting smart about intellectual property and other intangibles in the public sector, published in October 2018, which department will be responsible for the proposal to "design and implement best practice protocols for development, protection and commercialisation of public sector knowledge assets".
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL17751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Knowledge Assets team, based in HM Treasury but supported by a range of departments, is working with strategic partners to develop an implementation strategy which is aligned with related policy and institutions across the public sector.</p><p> </p><p>The implementation strategy remains in development and it is the intention to publish it later this year. It will respond to each of the ten recommendations made in the 2018 Budget report ‘Getting smart about intellectual property and other intangibles in the public sector’, including questions of future departmental responsibilities and reporting.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 09/09/2019 15:43:36 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1144865

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, with respect to the National Statistics data published in April, which estimated the total cost of pension tax relief in respect of registered pension schemes for the year ending 5 April 2018 at £36.3 billion including £4.3 billion in tax relief on employee contributions to occupational pension schemes, (1) what is the estimated figure of gross pension contributions on which this figure was based, and (2) what specific assumptions were made as to the rates of tax applicable in arriving at the figure of £4.3 billion; and whether these assumptions included that all employees making contributions to occupational schemes receive the full tax relief to which they are entitled, including those contributing to net pay pension schemes.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL17699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">HMRC publishes estimates of the cost of pension tax relief which is available in table 6 of HM Revenue and Customs Personal Pension Statistics on Gov.uk. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em> </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">These estimates were revised on 26<sup>th</sup> September 2019 as part of an overall update to HMRC’s Personal Pension and Pension Relief statistics. Estimates of the cost of tax relief on contributions are produced using the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) for income, individual and employer contributions for members of pension schemes that use the net pay mechanism; and administrative data HMRC holds on relief at source administrative data matched to the Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI) - for income, individual and employer pension contributions for members of pension schemes that use the relief at source mechanism.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The cost of tax relief for all contributions made by individuals is approximately £6.3bn, broken down as the cost of relief on employee contributions to occupational schemes (£4.2bn), to personal pension schemes (£1.6bn), and self-employed contributions to pensions (£0.5bn). Occupational pensions here includes some master trust pension schemes which use the relief at source method. Personal pensions here includes workplace personal pension schemes (such as group personal pensions).</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">i) The £4.3bn figure referenced is the cost of pension tax relief relating to occupational pension schemes. Estimates of the cost of pension tax relief were revised on September 26<sup>th</sup> 2019 as part of an overall update to HMRC’s Personal Pensions and Pension Relief Statistics. The £4.3bn figure referenced has since been revised to £4.2bn. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This £4.2bn figure of tax relief is derived from around £15.9bn of estimated “relievable” individual pension contributions to occupational pension schemes, (where “relievable” refers to our best estimates of contributions which are within the individual’s pensions Annual Allowance). </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">ii) Marginal rate tax relief is applied to these estimates of “relievable” contributions as if these contributions were taxed. Estimates are produced assuming all members contributing to all pension schemes receive full marginal rate tax relief on their contributions.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em> </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As noted in the publication, costs are subject to large revisions and have a particularly wide margin of error – reflecting the variety of sources of data (both administrative and survey) required to produce these estimates.</ins></p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 09/09/2019 16:33:08 question first ministerially corrected 08/10/2019 12:38:27 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown previous answer version 135351 answering member printed The Earl of Courtown answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1144866

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the amount of tax relief forgone in net pay pension schemes by workers earning below the personal tax threshold while contributing to workplace pensions in the past three tax years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL17700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Members of net pay pension schemes receive tax relief on their pension contributions at their marginal rate as these contributions are deducted before tax is calculated. Those individuals with income below the personal tax threshold do not pay tax.</p><p> </p><p>Members of relief at source pension schemes, however, receive a 20% basic rate top up on their pension contribution, even though they do not pay tax.</p><p> </p><p>The Economic Secretary to the Treasury provided the Work and Pensions committee an estimate of the cost of providing the same type of top-up as exist for those in relief at source scheme to those in net pay schemes. This estimate was around £100m per tax year.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 09/09/2019 15:42:07 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1144184

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what criteria are used by HMRC to decide whether calls to their helpline are recorded as answered for the purposes of published statistics; and whether an automated response constitutes an answered call.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
	uin	HL17672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>HMRC measure telephony performance by Average Speed of Answer (ASA) and the percentage of customers needing to wait more than ten minutes to speak to an adviser (Outliers). The ASA and Outliers performance data are published monthly, quarterly and annually.</p><p> </p><p>An automated response does not constitute a call answered by an advisor; routing and messaging systems are to advise and guide a customer to the right advisor for their query. As part of the publication of HMRC’s Annual Report &amp; Accounts 2017-2018 (on Gov.uk), HMRC published technical documents to provide further understanding of how their telephony performance is managed and monitored.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 09/09/2019 15:38:09 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie

1144130

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Intellectual Property
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish the detailed implementation strategy that has been prepared, as a result of the Knowledge Assets Implementation Study, for ministers in (1) Her Majesty's Treasury, (2) the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and (3) the Cabinet Office.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL17618
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Knowledge Assets team, based in HM Treasury but supported by a range of departments, is working with strategic partners to develop an implementation strategy which is aligned with related policy and institutions across the public sector. This includes colleagues in the Office for Life Sciences, which has announced plans to establish a National Centre of Expertise within NHSX that will provide specialist commercial and legal advice to NHS organisations entering data agreements.</p><p> </p><p>The implementation strategy remains in development and it is the intention to publish it later this year. It will respond to each of the ten recommendations made in the 2018 Budget report ‘Getting smart about intellectual property and other intangibles in the public sector’, including questions of future departmental responsibilities and reporting.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown grouped question UIN HL17619 HL17620 HL17621 HL17622 HL17623 question first answered 09/09/2019 15:37:27 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1144131

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Intellectual Property
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which department will host the centre of expertise providing advice and support on technical, legal, commercial and financial aspects of generating and exploiting knowledge assets, as proposed in the terms of reference of the Knowledge Assets Implementation Study; and how this centre will work with the proposed National Centre of Expertise to provide specialist advice and guidance to the NHS on agreements for the use of health data.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL17619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Knowledge Assets team, based in HM Treasury but supported by a range of departments, is working with strategic partners to develop an implementation strategy which is aligned with related policy and institutions across the public sector. This includes colleagues in the Office for Life Sciences, which has announced plans to establish a National Centre of Expertise within NHSX that will provide specialist commercial and legal advice to NHS organisations entering data agreements.</p><p> </p><p>The implementation strategy remains in development and it is the intention to publish it later this year. It will respond to each of the ten recommendations made in the 2018 Budget report ‘Getting smart about intellectual property and other intangibles in the public sector’, including questions of future departmental responsibilities and reporting.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown grouped question UIN HL17618 HL17620 HL17621 HL17622 HL17623 question first answered 09/09/2019 15:37:27 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1144132

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Intellectual Property
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in seeking to develop new standards and approaches for measuring and reporting the value of knowledge assets in the public sector, they have taken account of the recent work of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Working Parties on National Accounts and on International Trade in Goods and Services Statistics.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL17620
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Knowledge Assets team, based in HM Treasury but supported by a range of departments, is working with strategic partners to develop an implementation strategy which is aligned with related policy and institutions across the public sector. This includes colleagues in the Office for Life Sciences, which has announced plans to establish a National Centre of Expertise within NHSX that will provide specialist commercial and legal advice to NHS organisations entering data agreements.</p><p> </p><p>The implementation strategy remains in development and it is the intention to publish it later this year. It will respond to each of the ten recommendations made in the 2018 Budget report ‘Getting smart about intellectual property and other intangibles in the public sector’, including questions of future departmental responsibilities and reporting.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown grouped question UIN HL17618 HL17619 HL17621 HL17622 HL17623 question first answered 09/09/2019 15:37:26 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1144133

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Intellectual Property
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which department will be responsible for the proposal to establish a central repository detailing Government knowledge asset holdings and their value, as set out in the terms of reference of the Knowledge Assets Implementation Study.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL17621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Knowledge Assets team, based in HM Treasury but supported by a range of departments, is working with strategic partners to develop an implementation strategy which is aligned with related policy and institutions across the public sector. This includes colleagues in the Office for Life Sciences, which has announced plans to establish a National Centre of Expertise within NHSX that will provide specialist commercial and legal advice to NHS organisations entering data agreements.</p><p> </p><p>The implementation strategy remains in development and it is the intention to publish it later this year. It will respond to each of the ten recommendations made in the 2018 Budget report ‘Getting smart about intellectual property and other intangibles in the public sector’, including questions of future departmental responsibilities and reporting.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown grouped question UIN HL17618 HL17619 HL17620 HL17622 HL17623 question first answered 09/09/2019 15:37:27 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg