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1715583

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2024
	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, when he plans to publish the consultation on proposals to bring remote gambling into a single tax announced in the Autumn Budget 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
	tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
	uin	24679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>The consultation will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 08/05/2024 10:33:40 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

1715654

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Research: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many small and medium sized enterprises were unsuccessful in securing research and development tax relief (a) in 2024 to date and (b) between 1 January and 2 May 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Anne McLaughlin
	uin	24673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>HMRC publish R&amp;D statistics annually, the latest publication can be found on Gov.uk at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/corporate-tax-research-and-development-tax-credit/research-and-development-tax-credits-statistics-september-2023" target="_blank">Research and Development Tax Credits Statistics: September 2023</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Previous statistics are archived and can be found at <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20230104003818/https:/www.gov.uk/government/statistics/corporate-tax-research-and-development-tax-credit" target="_blank">The National Archives website.</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 08/05/2024 08:14:31 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4437 label Biography information for Anne McLaughlin

1715215

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	No-interest Loans Scheme: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he expects the pilot No Interest Loan Scheme run by Fair4AllFinance to be launched in Northern Ireland before the end of the calendar year.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	24402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The government funded No Interest Loan Scheme (NILS) is being run by Fair4AllFinance, in conjunction with their partners. The pilot is designed to test the impact that NILS could have on addressing the needs of vulnerable consumers across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Fair4AllFinance have now rolled out the pilot in England, Scotland and Wales. Fair4AllFinance will continue to engage closely with stakeholders, including the Northern Ireland Executive, in an effort to deliver our shared ambition to launch a pilot site in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami question first answered 07/05/2024 16:19:14 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1714919

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties
	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 reintroducing the expensive car supplement for electric vehicles at a higher threshold in the context of their relative price compared to petrol and diesel vehicles.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
	tabling member printed	Jack Brereton
	uin	24292
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>As with all taxes, the Government keeps the Expensive Car Supplement under review, and any changes will be announced at a future fiscal event.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 08/05/2024 10:30:18 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4643 label Biography information for Jack Brereton

1714962

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Poverty
	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 implications for his fiscal policies of the report by Oxfam International entitled Inequality Inc., published on 15 January 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	24190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>Distributional analysis published at Spring Budget 2024 shows that the overall level of public spending received and tax paid by households continues to be highly redistributive.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has mechanisms for taxing wealth across many different economic activities, including acquisition, holding, transfer and disposal of assets and income derived from assets. The UK also has a progressive income tax system – the top 5% of taxpayers were projected to pay nearly half of all income tax in 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 08/05/2024 10:32:10 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1714978

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Financial Services: Information Sharing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on open finance.
	tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Bill Wiggin
	uin	24201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The financial services sector is currently at the forefront of Smart Data, through a combination of Open Banking and the HM Treasury-funded Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT), which recently published recommendations for driving Open Finance forward in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury has worked closely with the Department for Business and Trade as it developed its Smart Data roadmap, which sets out the government’s ambition for future Smart Data scheme development across seven different sectors, including finance, and is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-smart-data-roadmap-action-the-government-is-taking-in-2024-to-2025" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-smart-data-roadmap-action-the-government-is-taking-in-2024-to-2025</a>.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the roadmap, HM Treasury will carefully consider CFIT’s recommendations for Open Finance, alongside wider industry engagement, as it develops its strategy for Open Finance.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2024, HM Treasury also announced the launch of an industry-led taskforce, which will identify and prioritise Open Finance use cases and data-sets that could be unlocked to improve SME access to credit.</p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami question first answered 07/05/2024 12:43:04 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
	tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1714985

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Enforcement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many minimum wage investigations HMRC concluded in each financial year since 2019 in Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	24257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) receives it.</p><p>HMRC continues to crack down on employers who ignore the law, ensuring that workers receive the wages they are entitled to.</p><p>Data on the number of closed investigations in Wales is published routinely by financial years.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/627cbe7ed3bf7f0536700ed2/nlw-nmw-enforcement-compliance-statistics.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/627cbe7ed3bf7f0536700ed2/nlw-nmw-enforcement-compliance-statistics.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/643566dc89f19f000c3cfb1c/supplementary_data_for_enforcement_and_compliance_report.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/643566dc89f19f000c3cfb1c/supplementary_data_for_enforcement_and_compliance_report.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 08/05/2024 08:18:14 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1714523

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Defence: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister’s speech in Warsaw on 23 April 2024, whether his Department has (a) conducted an assessment of costings and (b) developed proposals for how to fund the commitment to spend 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence by 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	23982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>We have made a commitment to steadily increase defence spending, reaching 2.5% of GDP in 2030. We have also set out how we are fully funding this increase in defence spending.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 23991 question first answered 02/05/2024 14:39:02 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1714636

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking with local authorities to help tackle the illicit tobacco trade.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	24094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>In January 2021 HMRC and National Trading Standards launched Operation CeCe. This joint initiative builds on decades of partnership working with local Trading Standards Officers.</p><p> </p><p>This supports them to undertake enforcement activity including the sharing of information and intelligence to target and seize illegal tobacco, disruption of the illicit tobacco market and prevention of fraud in their area. In its first two years of operation more than 28 million cigarettes and nearly 8 tonnes of illicit hand rolling-tobacco were seized.</p><p> </p><p>In January this year, HMRC published a new Illicit Tobacco Strategy ‘Stubbing out the problem’. The Strategy sets out how HMRC intends to build on the success of Operation CeCe by increasing the level of funding available to Trading Standards so that it can have an even greater impact in tackling the illicit tobacco trade.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 08/05/2024 10:28:34 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1714658

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Holiday Accommodation: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to consult on proposed changes to the Furnished Holiday Lets tax regime.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	James Wild
	uin	24154
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>Draft legislation will be published in due course and the Government will consult on it in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all aspects of tax policy under review and any decisions on future changes will be taken by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 08/05/2024 08:15:58 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild