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1092094

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what records HMRC holds on suicides by individuals who are subject to the 2019 loan charge.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	234776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>When HMRC is notified that an individual has taken their own life, and had contact with the customer at the time, or shortly beforehand, its standard process is to refer the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct within 24 hours of the notification.</p><p> </p><p>On Monday 18 March, HMRC was informed that a customer had, very sadly, taken their own life. The department had previously been told that the individual had used disguised remuneration schemes. Out of respect for the family, and given HMRC’s statutory duty of taxpayer confidentiality, it is not in a position to comment further.</p><p> </p><p>Suicide is a complex issue and there is rarely a single cause. It is important to emphasise that it will be for a coroner to determine any cause of death, not HMRC. The department will, of course, co-operate fully with any inquest.</p><p> </p><p>As Sir Jonathan Thompson KCB, HMRC Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary, said in his 13 March 2019 letter to the Loan Charge All Party Parliamentary Group, at that time HMRC was aware of reports but did not possess information that enabled it to identify a named individual.</p><p> </p><p>An impact assessment was published when the measure was announced at Budget 2016. The Government will also publish a report that will set out the rationale for, and impact of, the policy before 30 March 2019.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 234778 question first answered 25/03/2019 17:50:14 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1092101

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC has made an (a) assessment of the risk of suicide and (b) estimate of the number of suicides among people subject to the 2019 Loan Charge; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	234778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>When HMRC is notified that an individual has taken their own life, and had contact with the customer at the time, or shortly beforehand, its standard process is to refer the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct within 24 hours of the notification.</p><p> </p><p>On Monday 18 March, HMRC was informed that a customer had, very sadly, taken their own life. The department had previously been told that the individual had used disguised remuneration schemes. Out of respect for the family, and given HMRC’s statutory duty of taxpayer confidentiality, it is not in a position to comment further.</p><p> </p><p>Suicide is a complex issue and there is rarely a single cause. It is important to emphasise that it will be for a coroner to determine any cause of death, not HMRC. The department will, of course, co-operate fully with any inquest.</p><p> </p><p>As Sir Jonathan Thompson KCB, HMRC Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary, said in his 13 March 2019 letter to the Loan Charge All Party Parliamentary Group, at that time HMRC was aware of reports but did not possess information that enabled it to identify a named individual.</p><p> </p><p>An impact assessment was published when the measure was announced at Budget 2016. The Government will also publish a report that will set out the rationale for, and impact of, the policy before 30 March 2019.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 234776 question first answered 25/03/2019 17:50:14 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

971553

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Co-operatives: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What plans he has to increase fiscal support for the co-operative sector.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	906797
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>This Government recognises the value of co-operatives and other mutually owned businesses, which are worth more than £36 billion to our economy.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, the government has reduced the corporation tax rate from 28% to 19% today, which benefits all businesses, including co-operatives, supporting investment, jobs, and growth.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/09/2018 14:54:03 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1038982

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Music Venues: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has plans to assess the eligibility of music venues for discounted business rates.
	tabling member constituency	Wantage
	tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
	uin	207178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Budget 2018 announced a two-year business rates discount of one third for small retailers. As set out in the published guidance, the government considers retail to mean properties being used as shops, cafes, restaurants, and drinking establishments. It will be for local authorities to implement the discount and decide whether properties are similar in nature to those listed as eligible in the guidance. Music venues will only be eligible where they are similar in nature to those properties listed as eligible.</p><p> </p><p>This discount is part of Our Plan for the High Street, a £1.5bn support package. All ratepayers are benefitting from recent wide-ranging reductions to business rates; in total, cuts announced since Budget 2016 are worth more than £13bn to businesses over the next five years.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 17/01/2019 16:02:56 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

1082321

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Social Security: Reciprocal Arrangements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether A1 forms for artists and musicians will be accepted after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Wantage
	tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
	uin	228645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The Withdrawal Agreement provides for the continuation of social security coordination, which will maintain the current rules on A1 certificates in the UK and EU until the end of the implementation period in December 2020.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 12/03/2019 17:36:28 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

99713

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Financial Services: Terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taken to prevent banks within the UK banking system being used for funding domestic or international terrorism.
	tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
	tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
	uin	210981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The UK has a comprehensive anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism regime and the Government is committed to ensuring our financial system is a hostile environment for illicit finances.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The international money laundering and counter financing of terrorism standards are incorporated into various pieces of UK law, predominantly the Money Laundering Regulations (2007) and the Proceeds of Crime Act (2002) and also the Terrorism Act 2000. All banks within the UK banking system must comply with that legislation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Treasury is also responsible for implementing financial sanctions in the UK and for making designations under the Terrorist Asset Freezing etc. Act 2010. We are committed to ensuring that our terrorist asset freezing powers continue to be used and administered in an effective and proportionate way to help protect the public from the threat of terrorism.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 24/10/2014 13:20:09 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

223730

	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	LIBOR
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was received by HM Treasury from the banks in penalties for the manipulation of Libor.
	tabling member printed	Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
	uin	HL5215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>Since June 2012, the Treasury has received LIBOR fines from the FCA; to date, they have imposed total fines in excess of £450 million relating to its investigations of LIBOR manipulation. This Government promised that this policy would reflect that those who have paid fines in our financial sector, because they demonstrated the very worst of British values, are paying to support those in our Armed Forces and emergency services who demonstrate the very best of British values. We are working with OGDs and relevant charities to ensure that all LIBOR fines received to date will be committed within the life of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The administration of LIBOR fines varies according to the type of organisation applying and receiving the money. In particular, where a Government Department, such as the MoD has been identified as the organisation best suited to deliver the outcome – for example, support for childcare at military establishments – normal Departmental processes have applied. In other circumstances – such as those in support of the Armed Forces Covenant, the Covenant Reference Group – a cross-Whitehall representative body which includes charity representation, provides the guidance on those areas where LIBOR funds could be used to best effect.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton grouped question UIN HL5216 HL5220 HL5240 question first answered 11/03/2015 17:29:26 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	672 label Biography information for Lord Robertson of Port Ellen

223731

	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	LIBOR
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much of the money received in penalties for the manipulation of Libor has been distributed to charities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
	uin	HL5216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>Since June 2012, the Treasury has received LIBOR fines from the FCA; to date, they have imposed total fines in excess of £450 million relating to its investigations of LIBOR manipulation. This Government promised that this policy would reflect that those who have paid fines in our financial sector, because they demonstrated the very worst of British values, are paying to support those in our Armed Forces and emergency services who demonstrate the very best of British values. We are working with OGDs and relevant charities to ensure that all LIBOR fines received to date will be committed within the life of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The administration of LIBOR fines varies according to the type of organisation applying and receiving the money. In particular, where a Government Department, such as the MoD has been identified as the organisation best suited to deliver the outcome – for example, support for childcare at military establishments – normal Departmental processes have applied. In other circumstances – such as those in support of the Armed Forces Covenant, the Covenant Reference Group – a cross-Whitehall representative body which includes charity representation, provides the guidance on those areas where LIBOR funds could be used to best effect.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton grouped question UIN HL5215 HL5220 HL5240 question first answered 11/03/2015 17:29:26 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	672 label Biography information for Lord Robertson of Port Ellen

223732

	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	LIBOR
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether full accounts of the money received in penalties for the manipulation of Libor and distributed will be published.
	tabling member printed	Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
	uin	HL5217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The money received in penalties for the manipulation of LIBOR, net of enforcement costs, is accounted for in HMT’s annual report and accounts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor has announced that the funds collected from the LIBOR fines will be given to good causes, specifically military and other uniformed charities. The distribution of this funding is accounted for through the relevant department’s annual report and accounts.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 09/03/2015 17:51:18 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	672 label Biography information for Lord Robertson of Port Ellen

223733

	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	LIBOR
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what records are kept of the way in which distributed money received in penalties for the manipulation of Libor is spent after it is received by charities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
	uin	HL5218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Treasury provides monies allocated as LIBOR fines to the relevant Government Department to administer on its behalf through the normal Estimates process. Full details of all transfers are provided in Departmental accounts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 09/03/2015 17:53:06 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
	tabling member	672 label Biography information for Lord Robertson of Port Ellen