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1000315

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Gaming Machines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the money to be accrued to the public purse in tax from the profits made by gambling companies from fixed odds betting terminals between April 2019 and October 2019.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	187320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>As the Chancellor set out to the Treasury Select Committee on 5 November, changes to Fixed Odds Betting Terminals and Remote Gaming Duty will be implemented simultaneously. This ensures that regardless of when changes to Fixed Odds Betting Terminals and Remote Gaming Duty are implemented, there will be no significant change to the exchequer impact.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/11/2018 17:22:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1000319

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Gaming Machines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department conducted impact assessments on levels of taxation of different implementation dates for reducing the maximum stakes on fixed odds betting terminals.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	187393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The government made clear in May that the timing of implementation does not make a difference to the public finances. Remote Gaming Duty will be increased at the same time to offset the foregone revenue.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/11/2018 17:31:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1001973

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Telecommunications: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2018 to Question 184372 on Optical Fibres: Non-domestic Rates, what estimate his Department has made of the income for the public purse from rates on (a) new build (b) the existing stock of all fixed and mobile telecommunications infrastructure for each year for which his Department has such projections.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
	tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
	uin	188011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury does not collect or hold data on business rates receipts by asset type.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/11/2018 17:34:32 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1002067

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to conduct economic modelling on the effect of air passenger duty on the UK's global connectivity and competitiveness.
	tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
	tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
	uin	188167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2018 answer text <p>Like all taxes, Air Passenger Duty remains under review. The UK aviation sector has demonstrated strong growth and remains competitive with our neighbours.</p><p>Since 2010 passenger numbers at UK airports have grown by more than 15%. With the exception of Heathrow - which has been constrained due to capacity - the UK’s biggest airports have all achieved growth in line with their EU counterparts since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/11/2018 12:31:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

1003657

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the quantity was of (a) electricity and (b) natural gas used by (i) his Department, (ii) the Crown Estate, (iii) the Financial Conduct Authority, (iv) the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, (v) the National Infrastructure Commission, (vi) the Payment Systems Regulator and (vii) the Royal Mint in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	uin	189706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury’s spend on electricity and natural gas between 1 April and 31 March 2018 was £1,506,000. The quantity consumed for electricity and natural gas was 8,170,000 kwh and 85,000 kwh respectively. The other entities are split below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>Electricity</p></td><td><p>Gas</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>kWh</p></td><td><p>kWh</p></td><td><p>£’000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HM Treasury (1)</p></td><td><p>8,174,000</p></td><td><p>85,000</p></td><td><p>1,506</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Estate (2)</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Infrastructure and Projects Authority (3)</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Infrastructure Commission (4)</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Mint Ltd (5)</p></td><td><p>130,000,000</p></td><td><p>61,000,000</p></td><td><p>13,657</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Conduct Authority (6)</p></td><td><p>33,549.295</p></td><td><p>829,351</p></td><td><p>3,957</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><ol><li><p>Information is published within HM Treasury 2017-18 Annual Report and Accounts pages 189 and 190 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018</a></p></li><li><p>The Crown Estate Head Office costs are for Electricity only. Neither the spend for natural gas nor the quantity figures for both electricity and gas are easily available and could not extract them without incurring disproportionate cost.</p></li><li><p>The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) figures are part of the Cabinet Office and would form part of their remit.</p></li><li><p>The National Infrastructure Commission spend and quantity for electricity and natural gas are not easily available and could not extract them without incurring disproportionate cost</p></li><li><p>The Royal Mint Ltd uses large amounts of electricity and gas in the manufacturing of coinage and has recently invested in a renewable energy source with the purchase of a wind turbine.</p></li><li><p>The Financial Conduct Authority figures are including the Payment Systems Regulator as they do not split them out. The figures exclude 1 Canada Square and Edinburgh as utilities are included in the service charge. This information is provided in our report and accounts on page 146 <a href="https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/annual-reports/annual-report-2017-18.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/annual-reports/annual-report-2017-18.pdf</a></p></li></ol> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 189707 question first answered 19/11/2018 16:48:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1003658

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost was of (a) electricity and (b) natural gas used by (i) his Department, (ii) the Crown Estate, (iii) the Financial Conduct Authority, (iv) the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, (v) the National Infrastructure Commission, (vi) the Payment Systems Regulator and (vii) the Royal Mint in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	uin	189707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury’s spend on electricity and natural gas between 1 April and 31 March 2018 was £1,506,000. The quantity consumed for electricity and natural gas was 8,170,000 kwh and 85,000 kwh respectively. The other entities are split below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>Electricity</p></td><td><p>Gas</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>kWh</p></td><td><p>kWh</p></td><td><p>£’000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HM Treasury (1)</p></td><td><p>8,174,000</p></td><td><p>85,000</p></td><td><p>1,506</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Estate (2)</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Infrastructure and Projects Authority (3)</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Infrastructure Commission (4)</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Mint Ltd (5)</p></td><td><p>130,000,000</p></td><td><p>61,000,000</p></td><td><p>13,657</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Conduct Authority (6)</p></td><td><p>33,549.295</p></td><td><p>829,351</p></td><td><p>3,957</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><ol><li><p>Information is published within HM Treasury 2017-18 Annual Report and Accounts pages 189 and 190 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018</a></p></li><li><p>The Crown Estate Head Office costs are for Electricity only. Neither the spend for natural gas nor the quantity figures for both electricity and gas are easily available and could not extract them without incurring disproportionate cost.</p></li><li><p>The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) figures are part of the Cabinet Office and would form part of their remit.</p></li><li><p>The National Infrastructure Commission spend and quantity for electricity and natural gas are not easily available and could not extract them without incurring disproportionate cost</p></li><li><p>The Royal Mint Ltd uses large amounts of electricity and gas in the manufacturing of coinage and has recently invested in a renewable energy source with the purchase of a wind turbine.</p></li><li><p>The Financial Conduct Authority figures are including the Payment Systems Regulator as they do not split them out. The figures exclude 1 Canada Square and Edinburgh as utilities are included in the service charge. This information is provided in our report and accounts on page 146 <a href="https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/annual-reports/annual-report-2017-18.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/annual-reports/annual-report-2017-18.pdf</a></p></li></ol> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 189706 question first answered 19/11/2018 16:48:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1003692

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of contracts issued by his Department and contractors include provisions to impose, as between parties to the subcontract, that any payment due from the contractor to a subcontractor under the contract is to be made no later than the end of a period of 30 days from the date on which the relevant invoice is regarded as valid and undisputed, as required by the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	189573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Through the Public Contract Regulations 2015, all public sector buyers must include 30-day payment terms in new public sector contracts; and require that this payment term be passed down the supply chain. Public sector buyers must also publish annually on their payment performance.</p><p> </p><p>Government strongly encourages businesses to report poor payment practice and instances of late payment, including late payment through the supply chain, in public sector contracts to its Mystery Shopper service. Mystery Shopper will then investigate.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/11/2018 13:45:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1003871

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Crown Lands and Estates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2018 to Question 186180 on Crown Lands and Estates, which topics regarding property held in escheat were discussed.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	189559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Escheat was discussed at a high level and particularly in relation to landfill sites.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/11/2018 17:04:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1005867

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Gaming Machines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the report prepared by KPMG on behalf of the Association of British Bookmakers which was submitted to his Department as part of its consultations on the reduction in maximum stakes on fixed odds betting terminals and increasing remote gaming duty.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	190390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The report was commissioned by the Association of British Bookmakers and was provided in confidence to HM Treasury due to its commercial sensitivity.</p><p> </p><p>It is imperative that stakeholders can provide information in confidence for the government to critically analyse to ensure policy making can be evidence-based.</p><p> </p><p>Releasing the report and breaching that confidence would discourage stakeholders from engaging with government and harm future policy-making<strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/11/2018 17:06:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1006208

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what effect has plain packaging had on the tax received from tobacco duty receipts in each financial year since that policy was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	190817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>There has been a long term reduction in annual tobacco duty receipts, driven by above-RPI increases in duty and changing attitudes to smoking. As shown in the published Tobacco Bulletin July 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In their November 2016 Economic and fiscal outlook the Office of Budget Responsibility revised their estimates of the underlying downward trend in clearances of tobacco. This was to account for various factors including weakness in tobacco receipts and the expected effects of the Tobacco Products Directive. Paragraph 4.75 noted that the effect on receipts from the introduction of standardised tobacco packaging is assumed to be captured by this downward trend in clearances across the forecast period.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/11/2018 16:48:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1006896

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Gaming Machines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the value of tax receipts as a result of the decision to delay reducing the Fixed Odds Betting Terminal stake.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	191444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>As the Chancellor set out to the Treasury Select Committee on 5 November, changes to Fixed Odds Betting Terminals and Remote Gaming Duty will be implemented simultaneously. This ensures that regardless of when changes to Fixed Odds Betting Terminals and Remote Gaming Duty are implemented, there will be no significant change to the exchequer impact.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/11/2018 13:41:11 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1006913

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Natural England: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent (a) assessments and (b) reports have been produced by UK Government Investments on the financial management of Natural England; and if he will place a copy of those documents in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	191370
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p><strong></strong>UK Government Investments have been asked to carry out an internal governance review of Natural England. The findings of this review are currently being discussed with the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Natural England.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/11/2018 14:30:18 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1006938

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Taxation: Electronic Government
	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 to increase public awareness on the option to pay voluntary tax payments to HMRC.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	191280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>There is no formal mechanism for members of the public to make additional voluntary tax payments.</p><p> </p><p>Any payments made directly to HM Treasury are treated as gifts to the Crown and are surrendered to the Consolidated Fund. Payments can also be made by the public to reduce the National Debt by making a payment to the Commissioners for the Reduction of National Debt.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/11/2018 14:39:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1006991

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wines: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 September to Question 172413 on Public Houses: Non-domestic Rates, what evaluation has been made of the effect of increasing the duty on wine on (a) pubs and (b) the wine industry.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	191272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>When considering changes in alcohol duty rates, the Government models changes in consumption driven by those duty-changes, but it does not explicitly model other effects on pubs and the wine industry. The Treasury takes all issues into account when setting alcohol duty rates.</p><p> </p><p>At Budget 2018, we froze duty on beer, cider and spirits. Pubs, and other businesses, with a rateable value below £51,000 will also benefit from the business rates discount announced.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/11/2018 14:49:59 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1010260

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Buckingham Palace: Honours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the ,Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the contribution to the public purse from sales of (a) digital versatile discs and (b) photographs of the presentation of official honours at Buckingham Palace in the financial years (i) 2015-16, (ii) 2016-17, (iii) 2017-18 and (iv) 2018-19 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	192869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Royal Household receives income from granting access to organisations who create and sell the items mentioned in the question. This is in line with the Royal Household’s framework agreement with HM Treasury, under which it seeks to optimise income from non-Treasury sources where this is consistent with the main functions of the Sovereign Grant. Information on the income is commercially sensitive. However, income supplementing the Sovereign Grant is summarised in the Annual Report and Accounts of the Sovereign Grant.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 192870 question first answered 27/11/2018 13:37:24 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1010261

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Buckingham Palace: Honours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what net profit has accrued to the public purse from (a) the filming and sale of digital versatile discs and (b) the capture and sale of photographs whose images were taken during the presentation of official honours at Buckingham Palace in the financial years (i) 2015-16, (ii) 2016-17, (iii) 2017-18 and (iv) 2018-19 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	192870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Royal Household receives income from granting access to organisations who create and sell the items mentioned in the question. This is in line with the Royal Household’s framework agreement with HM Treasury, under which it seeks to optimise income from non-Treasury sources where this is consistent with the main functions of the Sovereign Grant. Information on the income is commercially sensitive. However, income supplementing the Sovereign Grant is summarised in the Annual Report and Accounts of the Sovereign Grant.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 192869 question first answered 27/11/2018 13:37:24 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1010559

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Charitable Donations: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance his Department publishes on (a) payroll giving and (b) gift aid to help taxpayers understand the differences between those tax reliefs.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	193390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The guidance on the differences between the Payroll Giving and Gift Aid tax reliefs is available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/donating-to-charity" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/donating-to-charity</a>. This also sets out what taxpayers need to do in order to access the schemes and the amount of tax relief available.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/11/2018 14:31:19 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1015148

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Natural England: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2018 to Question 191370 on Natural England: Finance, if he will make publicly available the UK Government Investments internal governance review of Natural England.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	195566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>UK Government Investments’ internal governance review of Natural England is still under discussion with the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Natural England. There are no current plans to publish this review.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/11/2018 14:56:32 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1015538

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Integrity Initiative
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has (a) funded, (b) awarded contracts to and (c) procured the services of the Integrity Initiative in each financial year since 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Derby North
	tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
	uin	196180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not entered in to any such agreement with the organisation concerned.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/12/2018 12:57:18 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

1015542

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Soft Drinks: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May to Question 146155, on Sugar: Taxation, if he will undertake a review of the exemption for milk drinks containing sugar to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy earlier than 2020.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	196182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to reviewing the Soft Drinks Industry Levy in 2020, and there are no plans to alter this timeframe.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/12/2018 12:53:45 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1016267

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 46 of Autumn Budget 2017, how much and what proportion of the charging investment infrastructure fund has been invested in charging infrastructure.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
	tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
	uin	196790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund will consist of £200m government investment to be matched by the private sector. The fund will be managed and invested in on a commercial basis by a private sector fund manager who will make independent, commercial decisions on how to invest, within parameters set by government. The Request for Proposals to select a fund manager recently closed, and government are in the final stages of selecting a preferred bidder(s). The selected fund manager(s) will raise the match funding from the private sector and the fund will start investing in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 196791 question first answered 03/12/2018 12:55:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1016268

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer,with reference to page 46 of Autumn Budget 2017, how much and what proportion of the £200 million of private investment for the charging investment infrastructure fund has been raised.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
	tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
	uin	196791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund will consist of £200m government investment to be matched by the private sector. The fund will be managed and invested in on a commercial basis by a private sector fund manager who will make independent, commercial decisions on how to invest, within parameters set by government. The Request for Proposals to select a fund manager recently closed, and government are in the final stages of selecting a preferred bidder(s). The selected fund manager(s) will raise the match funding from the private sector and the fund will start investing in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 196790 question first answered 03/12/2018 12:55:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1016339

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Buckingham Palace: Honours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November to Question 192869 on Buckingham Palace: Honours, which organisations are contracted to (a) create and (b) sell the items; and when each of the tendering processes took place for those contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	196743
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The contracted organisations are British Ceremonial Arts and the Press Association. HM Treasury does not hold the details of when the last tendering process took place.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/12/2018 13:04:11 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1016340

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Buckingham Palace: Honours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November to Question 192869 on Buckingham Palace: Honours, in which of the three categories of items listed in the Income section of the table on Page 53 of the Annual Report and Accounts of the Sovereign Grant 2017-18 is the income deriving from the contract to create and sell the items.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	196744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>It is recorded under the category: “Recharges for functions and other income&quot;.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/12/2018 13:05:45 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1016341

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Buckingham Palace: Honours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November to Question 192869, what other sources of income are included in the same category of items listed in the Income section of the table on Page 53 of the Annual Report and Accounts of the Sovereign Grant 2017-18 as the income deriving from the contract to create and sell the items mentioned in that answer; and where not constrained by commercial sensitivity, how much income was derived from each of those other sources in 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	196745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The information that answers this question is set out in note 16 on page 86 of the Annual Report and Accounts 2017-18</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/12/2018 13:06:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1019927

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of Transferable Tax History on the incentives for buying companies to increase oil and gas production and generate further revenues.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	198899
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government, with technical advice from the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) and representations from the industry via the trade body Oil and Gas UK, assesses that there will be instances when companies hoping to purchase mature fields will be in a position to extract more value from the field through investment than their current owner.</p><p> </p><p>However, there is a barrier to these deals taking place due to the uncertainty around whether the buyer will obtain equivalent decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>Transferable Tax History (TTH) overcomes this uncertainty, enabling companies to complete asset deals on mature fields and allowing new investment to take place. Without TTH, transactions for mature assets are expected to be less common and the increased revenue from production is not realised.</p><p> </p><p>More details can be found in the published policy paper, <em>“Oil and gas taxation: transferable tax history and retention of decommissioning expenditure”</em>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/12/2018 08:50:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1019935

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: 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 effect of trends in the level of oil prices on the cost to the public purse of the Transferable Tax History.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	198900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>Transferable tax history (TTH) is expected to increase tax receipts from the oil and gas sector by £65 million between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24. This is based on forecast oil and gas prices as set by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility.</p><p> </p><p>A higher oil price will encourage investment in oil and gas extraction, facilitating more transactions for oil and gas fields and increasing the use of the TTH mechanism. Therefore, TTH would help increase revenues from oil and gas through increased production.</p><p> </p><p>A lower oil price will reduce the incentive for investment and decrease the likelihood that mature oil and gas fields will be sold. In this scenario the yield from new investment as a result of TTH will be lower. However, a low oil price is unlikely to result in TTH having a negative impact on tax receipts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/12/2018 08:51:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1019939

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has put in place to maintain job security for workers on North Sea oil rigs when Transferable Tax History is implemented.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	198901
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>Transferable tax history will encourage new investment into the North Sea and prolong the productive life of the basin. This will help protect the 280,000 jobs across the UK that are supported by the industry.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 198904 question first answered 14/12/2018 08:54:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1019944

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: 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 limiting Transferable Tax History claims to incoming companies’ investment in (a) infrastructure, (b) maintenance, (c) retraining and (d) methane reduction.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	198902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>Restricting the use of transferable tax history (TTH) in this way will make it an unattractive tool for new entrants to the basin.</p><p> </p><p>TTH has been carefully designed to put new entrants in the same tax position as current licensees. Creating a two-tier system where new entrants must meet stricter criteria than existing operators to receive tax relief will discourage much needed new investment into the basin.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/12/2018 08:55:11 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1019945

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the net flow of revenue has been between the Treasury and North Sea oil and gas companies over the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	198903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication <em>“Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”. Total Government revenue, including oil licence fees, is published by the Oil and Gas Authority at “<em>Table: Government revenues from UK oil and gas production 1964/65-2017/18</em>”</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Licence fees (£m)</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Gov Revenue (£m)</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>-285</p></td><td><p>1,250</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Link to publications<strong>: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/government-revenues-from-uk-oil-and-gas-production--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/government-revenues-from-uk-oil-and-gas-production--2</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/media/5138/tax_table_nov_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/media/5138/tax_table_nov_2018.pdf</a></strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/12/2018 08:56:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1019947

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: 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 stability and security of jobs for workers on North Sea oil rigs under Transferable Tax History.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	198904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>Transferable tax history will encourage new investment into the North Sea and prolong the productive life of the basin. This will help protect the 280,000 jobs across the UK that are supported by the industry.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 198901 question first answered 14/12/2018 08:54:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1019949

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of Transferable Tax History and the Paris climate agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	198905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>In the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5˚C, all the scenarios reflect an ongoing role for some fossil fuel use, recognising the need to maintain a supply of energy to meet global demand.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is currently a net importer of both oil and gas and our domestic supply is forecast to decline further in the future. Managing the declining production of our relatively small domestic basin, whilst reducing our overall consumption of fossil fuels is compatible with the UK’s obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 198906 question first answered 14/12/2018 08:58:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1019955

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: North Sea
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the UK’s remaining 7.5 billion barrels of discovered undeveloped oil and gas resources can be exploited if the UK is to contribute to meeting the climate change goals set out in the Paris Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	198906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>In the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5˚C, all the scenarios reflect an ongoing role for some fossil fuel use, recognising the need to maintain a supply of energy to meet global demand.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is currently a net importer of both oil and gas and our domestic supply is forecast to decline further in the future. Managing the declining production of our relatively small domestic basin, whilst reducing our overall consumption of fossil fuels is compatible with the UK’s obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 198905 question first answered 14/12/2018 08:58:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020029

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Spirits: Excise Duties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a reduced rate of duty for spirits produced by smaller distillers and producers.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	198720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Under EU law a reduced rate of spirit duty can be applied to producers who make less than 1,000 litres of product a year.</p><p> </p><p>The government is not minded to introduce such a relief as there is no compelling case to do so at this time given the risk of illicit production and excise duty fraud.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/12/2018 15:32:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1020031

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Industry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many licensed stills have (a) been established and (b) ceased trading in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	198721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>HMRC licenses the businesses who use stills for distillation rather than the stills themselves. The number of licences issued in each year was:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>HMRC has no information on the number of licensed businesses that have ceased trading.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/12/2018 15:40:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1020230

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	National Productivity Investment Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of money the National Productivity Investment Fund will allocate in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	199322
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) will provide £37 billion of capital investment between 2017-18 and 2023-24 to support jobs and growth.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor has set out how over £27 billion of this funding will be allocated across housing, transport, digital infrastructure and R&amp;D. The remaining funding will be allocated at future fiscal events.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of allocations can be found on page 54 of the Autumn Budget 2018 document: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752202/Budget_2018_red_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752202/Budget_2018_red_web.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/12/2018 15:38:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1020236

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government has established a decommissioning fund to ensure funding for the transferable tax history policy.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	199457
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199458 199459 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020237

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the costs of the transferable tax history policy in the ten years after April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	199458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199459 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020238

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Part 2, paragraph 5d of Schedule 14 on Clause 36 of the Finance Bill 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential of the decommissioning costs doubling over the life-cycle of transferable tax history.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	199459
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199458 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020239

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	North Sea Oil: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what sums the Government (a) received in tax revenues from North Sea oil production and (b) paid out in decommissioning-related tax breaks in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	199460
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199458 199459 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020595

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	A303 and Lower Thames Crossing: Private Finance Initiative
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November to Question 188205, what range of models involving investment in infrastructure his Department plans to use to meet the proposals set out in the 2017 National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	199867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline has been updated for 2018 and was published on the 26 November. This sets out planned and projected investment of over £600 billion over the next decade.</p><p>The UK uses a mixed model, using both public and private investment, to fund and finance its infrastructure.</p><p>Funding and financing arrangements for individual projects and programmes are outlined in the pipeline spreadsheet.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/12/2018 14:31:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1020787

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Carbon Tax
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to reduce the rate of the UK carbon tax.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	200125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Carbon Price Support is a tax on fossil fuels used in power generation in Great Britain which provides a ‘top-up’ to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to form the Total Carbon Price.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Budget 2018, Carbon Price Support rates will be frozen at £18/tCO<sub>2</sub> in 2020-21. From 2021-22, the government will seek to lower CPS rates if the Total Carbon Price remains high.</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to meeting its climate change commitments including reducing carbon emissions by at least 80% of 1990 levels by 2050, and meeting interim carbon budgets, whilst also ensuring the continued competitiveness of UK businesses. The tax system is an important part of this.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/12/2018 15:18:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1023024

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings Ministers of his department have had with representatives of (a) the alcohol industry and (b) organisations working to reduce alcohol-related harm in 2018; and if he will publish the (i) dates, (ii) attendees and (iii) topics of each of those meetings.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	200639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>Details of all ministerial meetings are routinely published on the Gov.UK website, details can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel</p><p> </p><p>Ministers and officials regularly meet with stakeholders to discuss alcohol duty and related issues, including the health impacts of alcohol.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/12/2018 16:50:39 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1023109

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Industry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What progress has been made on the creation of local industrial strategies.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	908143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>We will work with all Local Enterprise Partnerships and Mayoral Combined Authorities across England to develop Local Industrial Strategies.</p><p> </p><p>We have already been working with Greater Manchester, West Midlands, and partners across the Oxford-Cambridge Arc to develop ‘trailblazer’ Local Industrial Strategies, which we expect to be completed in the first half of next year.</p><p> </p><p>We will then be working with a second ‘wave’ of places including the Leicester &amp; Leicestershire LEP that covers Harborough.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/12/2018 14:56:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1023179

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Prices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to table the increased affordability of alcohol.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	201157
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>The price of alcoholic drinks is a matter for businesses and consumers. However policies such as alcohol duty can have an impact, for example to address the issue of overconsumption of cheaper so-called “white cider” the government is legislating in the current Finance Bill for a new, higher, rate of duty.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury keeps all taxes, including alcohol duty, under review.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/12/2018 13:33:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1023346

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of ministerial visits of his Department to discuss the withdrawal agreement from 3 to 10 December 2018; and if he will place the itineraries of those visits in the Library before the Christmas recess.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	201275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Government Departments publish Ministers’ and Senior Officials’ travel, hospitality and external meetings on a quarterly basis. The data for December will be processed as part of the October to December quarterly return which will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Previous publications can be found here at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/senior-officials-expenses" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/senior-officials-expenses</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/12/2018 15:19:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1024809

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	British Business Bank: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to increase funding for the British Business Bank to make up the difference between the £200 million it was allocated in Budget 2018 and the £1.89 billion that the European Investment Bank allocated to UK projects in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	202139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>Businesses and infrastructure projects raise finance from the private market, with important UK government support.</p><p> </p><p>The European Investment Bank Group provides finance alongside other market participants. In 2017, the European Investment Bank, which predominantly invests in infrastructure projects, invested EUR 1.84bn in the UK. Its SME risk-finance focused subsidiary, the European Investment Fund, invested EUR 61.05m in UK operations in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>As we leave the EU, we continue to actively explore options for a future relationship with the European Investment Bank Group. However, as the Chancellor has been clear, if we do not maintain our relationship with the EIB group, we will be prepared.</p><p> </p><p>The government has a range of existing tools in place to support infrastructure and SME finance. This includes, the £40 billion UK Guarantees Scheme and the British Business Bank. British Business Bank programmes are supporting more than £5.5bn of finance to over 78,000 smaller businesses. The British Business Bank has capacity to make commitments this year exceeding the combined average annual commitments from the European Investment Fund and British Business Bank in the three years preceding the referendum.</p><p> </p><p>The government announced at the Budget that we will review our support for infrastructure finance, to ensure good projects continue to be able to access the finance they need. If no future relationship with the EIB Group is in place when the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019, the government will provide the British Business Bank with new resources to enable it to make up to £200m additional investment in venture capital and growth finance in 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/12/2018 16:53:05 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1027382

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Fuels: Prices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions his Department has had with representatives of the petroleum retail industry on fuel prices in rural and remote areas.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
	uin	202872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>Ministers and officials hold regular discussions with representatives of the petroleum sector on a range of issues, including fuel prices.</p><p> </p><p>The rural fuel duty rebate scheme allows around 125,000 people living in the UK’s most rural communities, including on the Scottish mainland and Scottish Islands, to benefit from a five pence per litre fuel price cut. The government also recognises that fuel costs remain a significant part of business and household costs, particularly in rural areas. That is why at Budget 2018, the Chancellor announced the main rate of fuel duty would remain frozen for the ninth successive year, which by April 2020 will have saved the average driver a cumulative £1000 compared to pre-2010 escalator plans.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/12/2018 16:06:14 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

1027556

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of his Department paying the £65 application fee for settled or pre-settled status for EU nationals (a) employed by and (b) working as an outsourced worker in his Department; what estimate he has made of the total cost to his Department of paying those fees; and what assessment he has made of the risks that the EU Settlement Scheme poses to the retention of EU nationals (i) employed by or (ii) working as an outsourced worker in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	203245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The UK Government currently does not plan to pay the Settled Status for its non-UK EU citizen employees. The fee is set at an affordable rate (£65), less than the cost of an UK passport.</p><p>Outsourced workers are not employees of HM Treasury and therefore this would be a decision for their employers.</p><p>The number of non-UK EU citizens employed across the Civil Service is not consistently collected across Government. It is therefore not possible to estimate the cost of paying the settled status fee for non-UK EU nationals employed directly by the Treasury.</p><p>We value the significant contribution made by EU citizens working in the Treasury and we want these colleagues to continue to play a full role in the work of the Civil Service. We are committed to supporting our EU citizen employees in the Treasury, and will continue to engage with them over the coming months.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/12/2018 16:09:36 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1028547

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to his Department for financial year 2018-19 for planning for the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and how much of that funding has been spent.
	tabling member constituency	Tatton
	tabling member printed	Esther McVey
	uin	203877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury has already allocated over £4.2 billion of additional funding to departments and the devolved administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This includes the £1.5 billion of additional funding HM Treasury announced at Autumn Budget 2017 for 2018/19, including £24.8m and £260m for the Chancellor’s HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs respectively, to enable them to prepare for EU Exit effectively in any scenario.</p><p> </p><p>A full breakdown of how this was allocated to departments can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/</a>) This money will be paid out in Supplementary Estimates 18/19 later this financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure on EU Exit preparation in 2018-19 will be detailed in departments Annual Report and Accounts in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/01/2019 13:17:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey