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42734

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the empty property business rates for the vacant properties recorded on the e-PIMS database owned by (a) his Department and (b) any executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies of his Department in the current financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	191806
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2014 answer text <p>Since May 2010 the Department for Education has reduced the size of its estate from 30 properties, at a cost of circa £51 million per annum, to 11 properties costing circa £34 million per annum. This is a saving of circa £17 million per annum. The Department is planning to further reduce the size of the estate to 6 properties. This will achieve further annual savings to the Department of circa £2.5 million. The Department also plans to vacate Sanctuary Buildings at lease expiry in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education, including the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), has the following vacant properties recorded on the e-PIMS property database.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Number of properties</p></td><td><p>Business Rates 13-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Education</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>£79,010.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>£9,222.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department for Education properties are legacy Training and Enterprise Council (TEC) properties which became the Department's responsibility following the closure of the TEC in the early 2000s. The Department had successfully sub-let a number of facilities, although over the last three years some of the sub-tenants have operated lease break options and the properties are again vacant.</p><p> </p><p>These properties are advertised on the Government Property Unit's e-PIMS property database for use by other Government Departments and we are also marketing these facilities to the private sector, via letting agents, to secure new sub-tenants in order to mitigate costs, including business rates. The Department has offered all vacant properties listed above to the Government business incubator initiative and for free schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 19/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

757396

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing Barnett formula funding for Wales in line with the recent increase in funding for Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	8645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Barnett Formula determines changes to each devolved administration’s funding with reference to changes in DEL funding for UK government departments. There was no change in DEL funding for UK government departments as a result of the financial support announced for Northern Ireland in June 2017.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/09/2017 12:59:13 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

749294

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the number of single parents who have been affected by the public sector one per cent pay cap.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	3594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/07/2017 14:05:33 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

749295

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of inflation on public sector workers who have had their pay capped.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	3593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>A range of factors are taken into consideration when formulating the government’s public sector pay policy including the impact on jobs, recruitment and retention, earnings in both the public and private sector and inflation. Government will continually assess that balance when considering public pay policy. The Government has introduced the National Living Wage and committed to raising the personal allowance further, to £12,500, by the end of this Parliament. By 2017-18, 1.3 million people on the lowest incomes will have been taken out of income tax altogether, and a typical taxpayer will pay over £1,000 less income tax, compared to 2010-11.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/07/2017 13:20:08 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

749614

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been saved in 2017 prices as a result of the imposition of the public sector pay cap.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	3645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>Projected savings were outlined in the Summer Budget 2015. Over the parliament 2010-2015, the government’s firm restraint over public sector pay delivered reductions to departmental spending, saving approximately £8 billion.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/07/2017 14:04:23 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

750023

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the public sector pay gap on the average levels of household pay in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	3895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>Public sector pay remains, on average, comparable to private sector pay. But, HM Treasury analysis, as well as independent studies, show public sector pay at a significant premium when pensions are taken into account. This analysis is not broken down by household.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 13/07/2017 11:53:01 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

749615

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much he plans to spend on social security in each of the next five financial years as a percentage of gross domestic product.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	3655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>According to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Spring Budget 2017 forecast, the Government is forecast to spend 10.9% of GDP in 2017/18 on welfare in the United Kingdom. This figure falls to 10.7% in 2018/19, 10.5% in 2019/20 and 10.3% in 2020/21 and 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/07/2017 09:29:11 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

756779

	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	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the performance indicators are which he has agreed with National Savings and Investments for the delivery of tax-free childcare.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	7777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The performance indicators agreed with National Savings and Investments for the delivery of Tax-Free childcare cover a range of areas including customer experience, payment processing, and sign-up.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/09/2017 15:20:56 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

756780

	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	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many parents have successfully signed up for (a) 30-hours free childcare, (b) tax-free childcare and (c) both 30-hours free childcare and tax-free childcare.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	7789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>As of 6 September 2017, 115,198 parents had successfully applied through the childcare service for 30 hours free childcare; over 25,404 parents had successfully applied for tax-free childcare; and 100,113 parents had successfully applied for both 30 hours free childcare and Tax-Free Childcare.</p><p> </p><p>As Minister of State at the Department for Education, Robert Goodwill, told the House on 6 September 2017, as of 31 August 216,384 eligibility codes had been issued for 3 year olds that were valid for the September term.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/09/2017 15:09:21 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

765187

	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	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the performance of National Savings and Investments and Atos since those companies started delivering tax-free childcare in April 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	105683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>As detailed in response to a Parliamentary Question (7777) on 11 September, the performance indicators agreed with National Savings and Investments for the delivery of Tax-Free childcare cover a range of areas including customer experience, payment processing, and sign-up.</p><p> </p><p>The performance of Atos, as a delivery partner of National Savings &amp; Investments is managed by a commercial agreement between National Savings &amp; Investments and Atos.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 106404 question first answered 16/10/2017 13:38:27 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams