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834859

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Childcare Vouchers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees in his Department make use of the childcare voucher scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	126281
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>112 employees of HM Treasury make use of the childcare voucher scheme. The childcare voucher scheme is a salary sacrifice scheme which means that an employee agrees to a reduction in their taxable salary, and receives the equivalent amount in childcare vouchers instead.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/02/2018 16:46:24 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

928782

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Fort Kinnaird: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Scottish Government receives a share of the sale to a private company of Fort Kinnaird.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	156463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>90B(3) of the Scotland Act 1998 stipulated that assets held in joint venture structures, rather than by The Crown Estate alone, were not included in the transfer to Scottish Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Estate held a 50% interest in the Gibraltar English Limited Partnership, with the remainder held by the Hercules Unit Trust, advised by British Land.</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Estate operates independently from Government under the Crown Estate Management Act 1961 and therefore HM Treasury has had no discussions on the sale of Fort Kinnaird with private companies.</p><p> </p><p>Revenue from the sale of The Crown Estate’s interest in Fort Kinnaird will be passed to the UK Consolidated Fund, for the benefit of the UK as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 156464 156465 156466 question first answered 26/06/2018 16:01:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

928783

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Fort Kinnaird: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department began discussions with M&G Estates on the sale of Fort Kinnaird.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	156464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>90B(3) of the Scotland Act 1998 stipulated that assets held in joint venture structures, rather than by The Crown Estate alone, were not included in the transfer to Scottish Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Estate held a 50% interest in the Gibraltar English Limited Partnership, with the remainder held by the Hercules Unit Trust, advised by British Land.</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Estate operates independently from Government under the Crown Estate Management Act 1961 and therefore HM Treasury has had no discussions on the sale of Fort Kinnaird with private companies.</p><p> </p><p>Revenue from the sale of The Crown Estate’s interest in Fort Kinnaird will be passed to the UK Consolidated Fund, for the benefit of the UK as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 156463 156465 156466 question first answered 26/06/2018 16:01:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

928784

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Fort Kinnaird: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many private companies his Department held discussions with on sale of Fort Kinnaird; when these meetings took place; and who attended those meetings.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	156465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>90B(3) of the Scotland Act 1998 stipulated that assets held in joint venture structures, rather than by The Crown Estate alone, were not included in the transfer to Scottish Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Estate held a 50% interest in the Gibraltar English Limited Partnership, with the remainder held by the Hercules Unit Trust, advised by British Land.</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Estate operates independently from Government under the Crown Estate Management Act 1961 and therefore HM Treasury has had no discussions on the sale of Fort Kinnaird with private companies.</p><p> </p><p>Revenue from the sale of The Crown Estate’s interest in Fort Kinnaird will be passed to the UK Consolidated Fund, for the benefit of the UK as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 156463 156464 156466 question first answered 26/06/2018 16:01:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

928785

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Fort Kinnaird: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria his Department used to decide to sell Fort Kinnaird to a private company.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	156466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>90B(3) of the Scotland Act 1998 stipulated that assets held in joint venture structures, rather than by The Crown Estate alone, were not included in the transfer to Scottish Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Estate held a 50% interest in the Gibraltar English Limited Partnership, with the remainder held by the Hercules Unit Trust, advised by British Land.</p><p> </p><p>The Crown Estate operates independently from Government under the Crown Estate Management Act 1961 and therefore HM Treasury has had no discussions on the sale of Fort Kinnaird with private companies.</p><p> </p><p>Revenue from the sale of The Crown Estate’s interest in Fort Kinnaird will be passed to the UK Consolidated Fund, for the benefit of the UK as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 156463 156464 156465 question first answered 26/06/2018 16:01:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

919128

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Fuels: Excise Duties
	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 implications of the findings of the report by Professor David Begg entitled Unintended Consequences of Freezing Fuel Duty, published on 1 June 2018, for the Government's policies on (a) transport, (b) road congestion, (c) air quality and (d) lost tax revenues.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
	tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
	uin	151175
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p><em>To support British households and businesses, at Autumn Budget 2017, the government froze fuel duty for the eighth successive year. Since public finances are based on the assumption that fuel duty will increase with RPI at every Budget, any increase below this represents a cost to the Exchequer. Successive freezes since 2011 have saved the average driver £620 compared to what it would have been with RPI increases. </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Since 2011, the announced freezes to fuel duty have meant the Exchequer has not collected around £46 billion in revenues through to 2018-19. For the purposes of comparison, this is around twice as much as we spend on all NHS nurses and doctors each year.”</em></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/06/2018 16:55:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

928795

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the cost of (a) fuel duty and (b) road tax on the affordability of motoring.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	uin	156489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p><em>To support British households and businesses, at Autumn Budget 2017, the government froze fuel duty for the eighth successive year. Since public finances are based on the assumption that fuel duty will increase with RPI at every Budget, any increase below this represents a cost to the Exchequer. Successive freezes since 2011 have saved the average driver £620 compared to what it would have been with RPI increases. </em></p><p><em>Since 2011, the announced freezes to fuel duty have meant the Exchequer has not collected around £46 billion in revenues through to 2018-19. For the purposes of comparison, this is around twice as much as we spend on all NHS nurses and doctors each year.</em></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 28/06/2018 09:48:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

845762

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Tobacco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what joint research work has been undertaken between HMRC and the tobacco industry in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	128734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p><strong></strong>HM Revenue and Customs has undertaken no joint research with the tobacco industry in these years.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 28/02/2018 13:06:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

846179

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty: Exemptions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received relief from air passenger duty for cabin crew in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	128867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Air passenger duty (APD) is payable by airlines in respect of each liable passenger departing from the UK and is dependent on the class of travel and final destination of the passengers.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC do not have numbers for the cabin crew exemption specifically because airlines are only required to declare an aggregate number of exempt passengers on their return.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does publish estimates of the cost of the exemption from APD for cabin crew. (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-relief-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-relief-statistics</a>) These estimates are based on published APD revenue statistics and assumptions on the size and class configuration of airplanes for various destinations. (<a href="https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Tax" target="_blank">https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Tax</a>)</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/02/2018 14:54:32 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

837616

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector: North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has conducted any risk assessments on public service contracts held with private sector contractors in the North East.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	126735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>Any public-sector body contracting for goods and/or services has an obligation to carry out an appropriate risk assessment as part of the procurement process. Furthermore, both the Cabinet Office and the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) carry out their own risk assessments of suppliers providing common goods and services to the public sector under their framework agreements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/02/2018 15:47:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell