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1045504

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Religion: Community Relations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much funding her Department has allocated to interfaith projects in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
	tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
	uin	210564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office has not allocated any funding to interfaith projects during the last three years.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/01/2019 16:07:34 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1045661

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Females: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department’s work to ensure that women are not held back in the workplace.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
	uin	210717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>Every woman in the UK must have the support needed to fulfil her potential. This government is making this a reality by shining light on inequality through gender pay gap reporting, Returners programmes, Shared Parental Leave and flexible working.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have invested £4 million in our two gender equality research programmes, the Workplace and Gender Equality Research Programme (WAGE) and the Gender and Behavioural Insights Programme (GABI), which are providing employers with the evidence they need about what works to create a more equal workplace.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The gender pay gap nationally is the lowest on record at 17.9%, but there is a way to go and we are committed to supporting this change.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 28/01/2019 15:49:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

1045711

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Ports: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the free flow of goods at the ports of Holyhead and Pembroke in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	210646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>Officials in the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales and colleagues across Government meet regularly with the Welsh Government, port authorities and other maritime stakeholders in Wales to support the smooth and orderly implementation of any new arrangements required as a result of the UK’s exit from the European Union.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 24/01/2019 12:28:52 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1045450

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Pensions: Advisory Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are taking steps to contact all members of the public who have taken pensions advice from Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulated pensions advisers who have had their authorisations revoked or have been otherwise instructed to cease giving pensions advice; if not, why not; and whether each case is being individually reviewed by the FCA.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL12986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to working with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to ensure consumers have access to high quality financial advice. The FCA, as the independent financial services regulator, has responsibility for ensuring that the financial advice market works well, competitively and fairly.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA conducts investigations into firms in relation to pension transfer advice. If this work results in formal action the FCA publicly sets out their detailed findings on those firms responsible for serious failings and ensures affected customers are aware.</p><p> </p><p>In cases where the FCA suspects serious misconduct may have occurred and harm needs to be prevented immediately, as a first step the FCA may also ask firms voluntarily to accept a variation of permission or the imposition of a requirement (VREQ). Typically, when the FCA uses this power it will be displayed on the FCA’s Financial Services Register which is free to access and publicly available. Through their work on pension transfers advice, they identified a number of firms which gave cause for concern. This resulted in VREQs being put in place.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 04/02/2019 14:49:19 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

1045496

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Capital Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many individual capital projects were awarded to (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Wales and (c) Scotland in (i) 2017, (ii) 2018 and (iii) 2019 to date by the Government; and what was the value of those projects.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	210499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury does not centrally hold information on all individual capital projects approved in (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Wales and (c) Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>Capital projects in the Devolved Administrations are not funded through a single mechanism, nor is there a single decision-making body. In devolved policy areas funding comes from either i) central government, as in the case of the Belfast City Regional Deal at Autumn Budget 2018; or ii) from Devolved Administrations’ own capital budgets, which are set per the Barnett formula. Projects in reserved policy areas, such as Defence, are funded through central government. Because there is no central funding source or decision-making body, we do not hold a complete record of individual capital projects approved in (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Wales and (c) Scotland in (i) 2017, (ii) 2018 and (iii) 2019.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 29/01/2019 13:07:11 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1045497

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	City Deals and Local Growth Deals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the Government's Growth Deal announcements in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019 that included allocated funding for (i) Northern Ireland, (ii) Wales and (iii) Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	210500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The government has agreed six City and Growth Deals in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since 2017.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017 the government announced the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Deal and Swansea City Deal. In 2018 the government announced the Stirling and Clackmannanshire City Deal, Tay Cities Deal, North Wales Growth Deal and Belfast City Region Deal.</p><p> </p><p>The government has committed to agree Growth Deals for the Borderlands, Ayrshire, Moray, Mid Wales and Derry/Londonderry City Region.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 29/01/2019 13:04:45 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1045530

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Gambling: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a tax on the gambling industry to provide funding for people that have been made destitute as a result of gambling addiction.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	210461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission is consulting on its new national strategy to reduce gambling harm, this includes a review of the financial contributions made by the industry. The license conditions of gambling companies require them to make a financial contribution to organisations that tackle gambling harm.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Autumn Budget, Remote Gaming Duty will be increased to 21% from 1 April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/01/2019 15:58:21 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1045660

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Retail Trade: Urban Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department is having with the devolved Administrations on government support for high street businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
	uin	210716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>At Budget 2018, the Government announced a £675 million Future High Streets Fund to support local areas in England in developing and funding plans to make high streets fit for the future. Alongside this, the UK Government announced a business rates discount of one third for small retailers in England for two years from April 2019. As high streets funding and business rates are devolved, the Barnett formula has been applied to both in the normal way, and it is for the Devolved Administrations to decide how to use this additional funding.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 29/01/2019 16:13:13 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

1045691

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Peterlee
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to Answer of 17 January 2019 to Question 208357, for what reasons his Department delayed the closure of the HMRC office in Peterlee.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	210724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>HMRC has decided to keep its office in Peterlee, Emerald Court, open until 2022-23 in order to respond to changing priorities.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC now expects that there will be more people in the Department in 2021 than it anticipated when its location plans were originally announced in 2015. This is due to the recruitment of people into Customer Services, extra staff to support new compliance work, the need for more operational staff to support EU Exit work and the change to the Department for Work and Pensions’ approach to rolling out Universal Credit, all resulting in more staff staying with HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans to retain any more other offices for longer, other than those which HMRC had previously announced.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 24/01/2019 17:33:34 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1045703

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of staff in his Department including those employed in executive agencies and non-ministerial Departments declared a disability in 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	210485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Disability data for HM Treasury, Government Internal Audit, DMO, OBR, and NIC are published in the ONS Annual Civil Service Employment Survey. Numbers between 1 and 5 employees are shown as “-“.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics</a></strong></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/01/2019 15:51:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead