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61656

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parliamentary questions tabled to his Department in the last parliamentary Session did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation; and when each such question was first tabled.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
	tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
	uin	200445
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>Two parliamentary questions tabled to the Department for Education, PQs 198493 (tabled on 13/5/2014) and 198434 (tabled on 12/5/2014), did not receive substantive answers by the time of prorogation. The questions had reply on dates during prorogation, and therefore could not be answered due to the House's rules regarding notice periods.</p><p> </p><p>As a courtesy, both Members have been sent copies of the answers that they would have received had the Department been permitted to give the answers in the usual way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 19/06/2014 16:15:37 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

773911

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Working Tax Credit: Glasgow East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people in Glasgow East constituency who are eligible for but do not claim working tax credit payments.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	108655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2017 answer text <p>The information for Glasgow East is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC published Child Benefit, Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Working Tax Credit (WTC) take up rates 2014 to 2015 on 14<sup>th</sup> December 2016. This publication is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-benefit-child-tax-credit-ctc-and-working-tax-credit-wtc-take-up-rates-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-benefit-child-tax-credit-ctc-and-working-tax-credit-wtc-take-up-rates-2014-to-2015</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 9 (page 21) provides information on the CTC take up by region, but not parliamentary constituency. This table includes estimates of the number of entitled non-recipients, and are given as central estimates with upper and lower bounds. There is no equivalent table for WTC.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 108656 question first answered 27/10/2017 11:52:26 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

748328

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Working Age Benefits: Wolverhampton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Wolverhampton and (b) Wolverhampton North East constituency qualified for (i) working tax credits and (ii) child tax credits in each financial year from 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	2806
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The number of families in receipt of child and working tax credit in (a) Wolverhampton and (b) Wolverhampton North East constituency is published by HMRC and is available on the GOV website</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-tax-credits-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-tax-credits-statistics</a><strong>. </strong>The results have been reproduced in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="7"><p>Families in receipt of tax credits from 2009-10 to 2015-16 (in 000’s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working tax credit</p></td><td colspan="7"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton North East constituency</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Child tax credit</p></td><td colspan="7"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>18.5</p></td><td><p>18.6</p></td><td><p>17.0</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td><td><p>12.9</p></td><td><p>13.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton North East constituency</p></td><td><p>6.8</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td><td><p>6.5</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/07/2017 14:52:32 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

765715

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in Northern Ireland have moved from a single tax credit claim to a joint tax credit claim in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast South
	tabling member printed	Emma Little Pengelly
	uin	105806
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 16/10/2017 12:38:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4611 label Biography information for Emma Little Pengelly

765851

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Divorced People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the equitable distribution of child benefits and tax credits between divorced parents.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	105992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>For both Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit (CTC), the law provides for one person – the person mainly responsible for the child – to receive the payments.</p><p> </p><p>Where parents separate, it is possible for them to jointly agree for Child Benefit to be paid to one parent and CTC to the other, or for one of them to claim both payments and then pay an agreed proportion to the other parent.</p><p> </p><p>Where parents cannot agree who should receive Child Benefit and CTC and make rival claims, the decision about who is entitled to such support is taken by HM Revenue &amp; Customs who consider all the facts in relation to each parent’s circumstances, based on the information provided by both parents. Entitlement will be awarded to the parent who appears to bear the greater responsibility of care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 16/10/2017 14:55:40 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

755576

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the merits of requiring HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to send an automatic acknowledgement to tax credit claimants who submit their renewals online; and if he will make it HMRC policy to not suspend tax credit claims until HMRC have evidence that claimants have received and then failed to respond to their communications.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	7488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) use SMS to provide acknowledgment of receipt for all tax credit renewals where there is a valid mobile phone number held. In addition, this year HMRC offered e-mail acknowledgments to all customers submitting their renewal online through the digital service.</p><p>Only after making significant efforts to obtain a reply from the customer would HMRC seek to stop tax credit payments.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/09/2017 13:39:34 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

756935

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent from the public purse in compensation to recipients of tax credits for errors caused by HM Revenue and Customs in the last seven years in (a) the UK and (b) Wansbeck constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
	tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
	uin	7860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will consider offering redress payments for a variety of reasons, including: poor complaint handling, costs incurred, worry and distress and actual financial loss. Redress payments made under HMRC’s complaints policy are ex-gratia and they are not intended in any way to equate to compensation or damages awarded by the courts. HMRC are unable to break down the data to show redress payments made specifically in relation to error.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/09/2017 14:54:56 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

756936

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been lost from the public purse as a result of HM Revenue and Customs errors in respect of tax credits in (a) the UK and (b) Wansbeck constituency in the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
	tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
	uin	7859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Child and Working Tax Credits Annual Error &amp; Fraud statistics measure the value of error and fraud at the end of the tax credits year. They do not include any errors that are corrected before the end of the year. The statistics are published every June.</p><ol><li><p>An estimated £80 million has been paid out in tax credits payments as a result of HMRC errors favouring the claimant between 2010/11 and 2015-16. Figures for 2016/17 are not available yet.</p></li><li><p>Figures for Wansbeck constituency are not available as error statistics are estimated based on a sampling exercise for the UK. There is not the level of detail available to break this down by constituency.</p><p> </p></li></ol><p>The figure above has been calculated using the figure in table 5 from the previous six publications. The latest error &amp; fraud statistics are published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-annual-error-and-fraud-statistics-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-annual-error-and-fraud-statistics-2015-to-2016</a></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/09/2017 14:57:02 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

765712

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time taken is to process joint claims for tax credit from the day of application to the day of payment in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast South
	tabling member printed	Emma Little Pengelly
	uin	105801
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The average time taken to process joint tax claims, from the first point of receipt to the first day of payment, in the last 12 months was 30.31 days. The data is inclusive of both UK and International Claims.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC have a public target of processing claims and changes for tax credits and Child Benefit customers within an average of 22 days for UK customers and 92 days for International customers. Both targets are currently being achieved.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 16/10/2017 15:00:05 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4611 label Biography information for Emma Little Pengelly

759679

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Universities: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of whether there will be any gap in funding for UK universities during the transition from EU structural and investment funds to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
	uin	10202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government made a manifesto commitment to use the EU structural and investment fund money returning to the UK after the UK leaves the EU to create a UK Shared Prosperity Fund.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2016 the Chancellor confirmed that HMT would guarantee funding for all multi-year ESIF projects signed ahead of the point at which the UK leaves the EU. Funding will be honoured provided that the relevant government department considers the project to provide good value for money and be in line with domestic strategic priorities.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/09/2017 09:07:44 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins