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979710

	registered interest
	date	01/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Pre-payment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will conduct a review of providers of pre-payment plans, and of the sales practices of such providers, with a view to appropriate regulation of this sector.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
	uin	HL10367
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>I have interpreted this question as relating to the pre-paid funeral plan market. The government launched a call for evidence into the regulation of the pre-paid funeral plan market in June 2018, having concluded that the current framework of self-regulation is not sufficient to ensure the fair treatment of consumers. We are currently reviewing the submissions and a response will be published in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/10/2018 12:34:14 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

980117

	registered interest
	date	01/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Probate
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they made of the efficiency of the probate processing by HMRC.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL10386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>HMRC is responsible for processing Inheritance Tax accounts, required before probate can be applied for. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has recently commissioned the Office of Tax Simplification to look at ways in which the overall process can be simplified.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/10/2018 12:33:35 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

980118

	registered interest
	date	01/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Inheritance Tax
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, from the date they are first received, what is the current average time taken by HMRC to agree the IHT400 return calculations for estates in the bands (1) up to £1 million, (2) from £1–5 million, and (3) from £5–10 million; and in each band, what is the average time taken to issue a clearance.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL10387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>HMRC cannot provide average times or break the data down into bands for the value of the estate as this information is not readily available and could only be compiled at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Since 6 April 2018 over 95% of IHT400 returns submitted to HMRC were processed within 15 working days of receipt.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/10/2018 12:33:10 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

980119

	registered interest
	date	01/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Inheritance Tax
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average time taken by the Valuation Office to provide advice to HMRC on estates valued in the bands (1) up to £1 million, (2) from £1–5 million, and (3) from £5–10 million.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL10388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Valuation Office Agency does not hold the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017-18, the VOA cleared its initial appraisals of inheritance tax cases, referred to it by HMRC, within an average of five working days, meeting its target.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/10/2018 12:33:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

980120

	registered interest
	date	01/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Inheritance Tax
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the current average time taken to provide a full and final response to executors once the Valuation Office has provided its advice to HMRC.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL10389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>HMRC does not hold this information. Once Valuation Office Agency has provided advice, HMRC seek to write to the executor within 15 days of receiving that advice.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/10/2018 12:33:21 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

980130

	registered interest
	date	01/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Electronic Funds Transfer: Fraud
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that funds obtained by authorised push payment fraud are traced and recovered.
	tabling member printed	Lord Chadlington
	uin	HL10399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes all fraud extremely seriously and recognises the harm that authorised push payment scams can cause. The Government has created the Joint Fraud Taskforce, which brings together government, the banks and law enforcement to develop a collective response to fraud. The objectives of the Taskforce are to protect the public and businesses from fraud, reduce the impact of fraud on victims, and increase the disruption and prosecution of fraudsters.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the government has established the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) with a statutory objective to ensure that the UK’s payment systems work in the interests of their users. The PSR has convened an Authorised Push Payment (APP) Scams Steering Group, made up of an equal number of both industry and consumer group representatives. On 28 September 2018 this steering group published a draft voluntary code which sets out the circumstances in which payment services providers (e.g. banks) would be responsible for reimbursing APP fraud victims who have acted appropriately. This draft voluntary code is an important step forwards towards better and more consistent protection for consumers and standards for industry.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/10/2018 12:35:02 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3318 label Biography information for Lord Chadlington

983070

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	UK Trade with EU: Customs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advice his Department is providing to importers on how to make customs declarations on goods arriving from EU member states after 29 March 2018 in the event that such declarations are required.
	tabling member constituency	Harwich and North Essex
	tabling member printed	Sir Bernard Jenkin
	uin	175776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>On 23 August, HMRC published Technical Notices on Customs, Excise and VAT procedures that would apply under no deal arrangements and the implications for businesses. HMRC has also written to 145,000 traders over the VAT threshold who currently only trade with the EU to explain the changes and to encourage them to look at the existing rest of world guidance on GOV.UK. We have also published our letter to EU only traders on GOV.UK.</p><p>We know that there would be some additional smaller businesses impacted who are not currently registered for VAT. We have engaged with trade and business representative bodies who have greater knowledge and access to these businesses. We plan to communicate through these groups, so that these smaller businesses are told about any implications. We will shortly publish a partnership pack that these representative bodies can use in their own communications.</p><p>To support the customs intermediaries sector to expand ahead of March 2019 HM Treasury and HMRC have also designed a package of measures which includes a one-off investment of £8 million to support broker training and increased automation.</p><p>HMRC’s communications plans have a phased approach and later in the year they will provide more information on what people can do should they wish to make preparations.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 16/10/2018 16:51:55 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	40 label Biography information for Sir Bernard Jenkin

982501

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	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, pursuant to the Written Statement of 13 March 2018 on Spring Statement, HCWS540, how much of that funding he has allocated to (a) programmes, (b) administration and (c) staffing in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	175814
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury has allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the Devolved Administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This breaks down as:</p><p> </p><p>£412m of additional funding over the spending review period for the Department for Exiting the European Union, Department for International Trade and the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office at Autumn Statement 2016.</p><p> </p><p>£286m of additional funding for 17/18 (a full breakdown of which can be found in Supplementary Estimates 17/18).</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Over £1.5bn of additional funding for 18/19. A full breakdown of which 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>)</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury was allocated £24.8m for costs arising as the UK leave the EU in the Spring Statement 2018. The final breakdown between programme and administration spend will be confirmed in the Supplementary Estimates. Staffing forms part of administration spend, and it is currently estimated that most of the department’s additional funding related to work on leaving the EU for 18/19 will be spent on staffing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 16/10/2018 15:31:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

983253

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Mutual Societies: Australia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with his Australian counterpart on the Australian Government's proposed Treasury Laws Amendment (Mutual Entities) Bill; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	175840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury has had no discussions with the Australian Government on the proposed Treasury Laws Amendment (Mutual Entities) Bill.</p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to supporting co-operatives, credit unions, building societies and other mutual legal forms as part of a diverse and resilient economy which offers choice to consumers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 16/10/2018 16:03:11 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

982556

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Freezing of Assets: Russia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assets have been frozen under the Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitri Kovtun Freezing Orders 2016 and 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	175841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury imposed an asset freeze on Lugovoy and Kovtun on 22 January 2016 by making a freezing order under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. The duration of such an order is two years. On 22 January 2018 a new order was made under the Act.</p><p> </p><p>In the ‘Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitri Kovtun Freezing Order 2018’ Debate before the House of Lords on 20 February 2018, Lord Young of Cookham made clear to the House that during the two-year period of the first order, HM Treasury had received no information in respect of the designations in place against Lugovoy and Kovtun.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 16/10/2018 16:06:20 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell