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225608

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's advertising and communications expenditure was in each month since September 2014; and what that expenditure is forecast to be in March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	226606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Treasury ministers and officials communicate with a wide range of bodies on a regular basis. All costs are met from within existing departmental budgets.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/03/2015 10:39:40 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

166242

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Catering
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on catering and hospitality since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	216192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The provision of hospitality, at functions within HM Treasury for Treasury staff, other Whitehall civil servants and non-executive directors has been prohibited since 1 July 2010. Hospitality may be provided where external guests are present. The attendance of Treasury staff at such meetings is dependent on a necessary business need and their number should not exceed the number of external guests.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>£000 </em></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>HMT</em><sup>(<em> 1</em>)</sup></p></td><td><p><em>DMO</em><sup>(<em> 1</em>)</sup></p></td><td><p><em>APA</em><sup>(<em> 2</em>)</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>208</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>213</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>256</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>(1)</sup> Data for HM Treasury and DMO are only available from 2002-03 due to the introduction of a new accounting system in that year.<br> <sup>(2)</sup> APA was formed in December 2009.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 14/01/2015 17:02:28 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

170616

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Christmas Cards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which (a) individuals, (b) companies and (c) other organisations receive Christmas cards from his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	219003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers send Christmas cards to a range of people with whom the Treasury interacts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/01/2015 11:54:38 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

166246

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Take-away Food
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on take-away food for staff since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	216101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/12/2014 13:31:43 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

164125

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Art Works
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent on transporting, installing and removing works of art from the Government Art Collection for the display of artwork in his Department since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	215583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2014 answer text <p>The department have not spent anything since May 2010 for the transporting, installing and removal of works of art from the Government Art Collection.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 28/11/2014 14:17:03 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

424479

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's impact assessment on the Tax Credits (Income Threshold and Determination of Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2015, what the (a) income brackets are for each decile and (b) equivalent levels are for the proportions in Chart 1.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	13929
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The analysis that fed into the published Impact Assessment<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> shows how the £4.4bn of savings from the tax credit changes as laid out in the publication are distributed for each income decile on the income distribution for tax credit claimants. This has clearly demonstrated that tax credit claimants on the highest incomes – on average £42,000 a year - will contribute nearly 4 times as much as the claimants on the lowest incomes to the savings from this policy.</p><p>This Government is committed to moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society. As the Chancellor has made clear, the Government will set out at Autumn Statement how we plan to achieve the same goal of reforming tax credits, saving the money we need to save to secure our economy, while at the same time helping in the transition.</p><p>[1] http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/Secondary-Legislation-Scrutiny-Committee/DraftTaxCreditsRegs2015-ImpactAssessment.pdf</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/11/2015 15:50:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

423890

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2015 to Question 12704, what the income range is of the half of tax credit claimants with the highest income.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	13498
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2015 answer text <p>The latest information on the number of tax credit recipient families by range of income can be found in the published statistics <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2013-to-2014</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 29/10/2015 17:26:28 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

422546

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate how many households will be entitled to tax credits in 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	12706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>The Summer Budget offered a new deal for working people. It means Britain moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society.</p><br /><p>A new National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above, initially set at £7.20 per hour from April 2016, will directly benefit 2.7 million low wage workers, and up to 6 million could see a pay rise as a result of a ripple effect up the earnings distribution. The new National Living Wage will boost pay for those currently earning the National Minimum Wage by £4,800 a year by 2020 when the National Living Wage is expected to rise to over £9 per hour.</p><br /><p>To help working families keep more of what they earn, the personal allowance will increase to £11,000 in 2016-17 and £11,200 in 2017-18. The government has committed to increase the personal allowance to £12,500 by 2020 which will mean that a typical basic rate taxpayer will see their income tax cut by £1,205 a year compared to 2010.</p><br /><p>An illustrative renting family with two children, where one parent works full-time on the minimum wage, will be over £2,400 better off in cash terms by 2020.</p><br /><p>The government set out its assessment of the impacts of the Summer Budget policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20<sup>th</sup> July 2015. Taken together, the introduction of the National Living Wage, increases in the personal allowance and welfare changes mean that 8 out of 10 working households will be better off as a result of the Summer Budget.</p><br /><p>In response to a request from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, the government has chosen to produce and release an impact assessment on the tax credit changes to the Committee. The impact assessment shows that 60% of the tax credit savings come from the half of tax credit claimants with the highest income.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 12704 question first answered 26/10/2015 15:25:08 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

422544

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate what the annual tax credit award for a single-earner family with two children, with no childcare costs, earning (a) £8,000, (b) £12,000, (c) £15,000, (d) £20,000 and (e) £25,000 a year will be in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	12704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>The Summer Budget offered a new deal for working people. It means Britain moving from a high welfare, high tax, low wage economy to a lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage society.</p><br /><p>A new National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above, initially set at £7.20 per hour from April 2016, will directly benefit 2.7 million low wage workers, and up to 6 million could see a pay rise as a result of a ripple effect up the earnings distribution. The new National Living Wage will boost pay for those currently earning the National Minimum Wage by £4,800 a year by 2020 when the National Living Wage is expected to rise to over £9 per hour.</p><br /><p>To help working families keep more of what they earn, the personal allowance will increase to £11,000 in 2016-17 and £11,200 in 2017-18. The government has committed to increase the personal allowance to £12,500 by 2020 which will mean that a typical basic rate taxpayer will see their income tax cut by £1,205 a year compared to 2010.</p><br /><p>An illustrative renting family with two children, where one parent works full-time on the minimum wage, will be over £2,400 better off in cash terms by 2020.</p><br /><p>The government set out its assessment of the impacts of the Summer Budget policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20<sup>th</sup> July 2015. Taken together, the introduction of the National Living Wage, increases in the personal allowance and welfare changes mean that 8 out of 10 working households will be better off as a result of the Summer Budget.</p><br /><p>In response to a request from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, the government has chosen to produce and release an impact assessment on the tax credit changes to the Committee. The impact assessment shows that 60% of the tax credit savings come from the half of tax credit claimants with the highest income.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 12706 question first answered 26/10/2015 15:25:08 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

433745

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Infrastructure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to publish an update of the National Infrastructure Plan and infrastructure pipeline before the end of 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	18541
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The government will publish a National Infrastructure Delivery Plan next spring, setting out in detail how it will deliver key projects and programmes over the next 5 years. This will be underpinned by a refreshed National Infrastructure Pipeline.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 07/12/2015 17:42:56 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth