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845479

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	VAT
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why VAT is payable on the provision of British Sign Language interpreters for deaf people and people with hearing loss in full-time employment.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
	uin	HL5679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption and the standard rate of twenty percent applies to most goods and services, including the supply of sign language interpreters and palantypists by VAT-registered suppliers. Exceptions to the standard rate are strictly limited under domestic and international law. However, VAT-registered employers are able to deduct VAT incurred on such services to the extent that they relate to VAT-able supplies. answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5680 question first answered 06/03/2018 12:48:39 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester

845480

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	VAT
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why VAT is payable on the provision of palantypists for deaf people and people with hearing loss in full time employment.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
	uin	HL5680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption and the standard rate of twenty percent applies to most goods and services, including the supply of sign language interpreters and palantypists by VAT-registered suppliers. Exceptions to the standard rate are strictly limited under domestic and international law. However, VAT-registered employers are able to deduct VAT incurred on such services to the extent that they relate to VAT-able supplies. answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL5679 question first answered 06/03/2018 12:48:39 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester

845414

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	VAT: Tax Evasion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much potential revenue they estimate the Government is losing each year through carousel or missing trader intra-community fraud.
	tabling member printed	Lord Faulkner of Worcester
	uin	HL5614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text I refer the Hon Member to the answer that I gave on 4 December to the Rt Hon. Baroness Primarolo (HL3403). The information is also available in Chapter 2 of the ‘Measuring Tax Gaps’ publication.[1]<p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps</a></p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/03/2018 12:43:48 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	2472 label Biography information for Lord Faulkner of Worcester

845763

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Tobacco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department met with representatives from the tobacco industry in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what the topics of discussion were in each of those meetings.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	128735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Treasury ministers and officials engage with a wide range of stakeholders, and details of Ministerial meetings are published in the Department’s Quarterly Transparency Return on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>Details of policy meetings between HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the tobacco industry are also published on GOV.UK. HMRC does not provide details of meetings with individual tobacco manufacturers to discuss their tax affairs or those concerning information to support HMRC’s enforcement activities.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 28/02/2018 13:03:25 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

845510

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Treasury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, to list the (a) dates and (b) attendees of meetings (i) Ministers and (ii) officials of his Department have held with (A) Beatty, (B) Barclays, (C) Dalmore Capital, (D) Equitix, (E) Innisfree, (F) Interserve, (G) Semperian and (H) Veolia in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	128482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery.</p><p>Details of ministerial and permanent secretary meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-giftsand-overseas-travel" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-giftsand-overseas-travel</a></p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/02/2018 13:32:35 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

845556

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received relief from income tax on personal allowance in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	128528
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows estimates for the number of people receiving income tax or National Insurance Contributions relief for each of the requested allowances. The estimates show people that would face a higher tax liability if the individual allowances and/or thresholds were removed, and include people who are currently non-taxpayers where their income is covered by these thresholds and/or allowances.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Estimates of the number of people who received tax/NIC relief (Millions)<sup> (1)</sup></p></td></tr><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>Personal Allowance</p></td><td><p>46.2</p></td><td><p>46.5</p></td><td><p>46.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Class 1 National Insurance: Primary Threshold</p></td><td><p>29.9</p></td><td><p>30.3</p></td><td><p>30.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Personal Savings Allowance</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>18.0</p></td><td><p>18.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dividend Allowance</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>(1) </strong>The figures are rounded to the nearest hundred thousand and presented in millions.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Information for the Personal Savings Allowance and the Dividend Allowance is only available from 2016-17 onwards, as they were introduced in April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates are based on the 2014-15 Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI), projected to 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 using economic assumptions consistent with the office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p><p> </p><p>The SPI is based on information held by HMRC on individuals who could be liable to UK income tax. Not all dividends and savings income is reported to HMRC. There is not always a requirement to report income from dividends or savings which fall within the Dividend Allowance or the Personal Savings Allowance. Dividend and savings incomes of individuals not in Self-Assessment are estimated from other sources, including the Family Resources Survey.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of individuals receiving relief from these allowances is likely to be greater than the figures above. HMRC does not hold information for all people with incomes below the Personal Allowance (£10,000 in 2014-15).</p><p> </p><p>There are also other mechanisms by which income is exempted from income tax, such as Investment income generated within Individual Savings Accounts. This income does not benefit from the reliefs in question.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 128529 128530 128531 question first answered 23/02/2018 13:35:32 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

845557

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received relief from income tax on personal savings allowance in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	128529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows estimates for the number of people receiving income tax or National Insurance Contributions relief for each of the requested allowances. The estimates show people that would face a higher tax liability if the individual allowances and/or thresholds were removed, and include people who are currently non-taxpayers where their income is covered by these thresholds and/or allowances.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Estimates of the number of people who received tax/NIC relief (Millions)<sup> (1)</sup></p></td></tr><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>Personal Allowance</p></td><td><p>46.2</p></td><td><p>46.5</p></td><td><p>46.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Class 1 National Insurance: Primary Threshold</p></td><td><p>29.9</p></td><td><p>30.3</p></td><td><p>30.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Personal Savings Allowance</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>18.0</p></td><td><p>18.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dividend Allowance</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>(1) </strong>The figures are rounded to the nearest hundred thousand and presented in millions.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Information for the Personal Savings Allowance and the Dividend Allowance is only available from 2016-17 onwards, as they were introduced in April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates are based on the 2014-15 Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI), projected to 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 using economic assumptions consistent with the office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p><p> </p><p>The SPI is based on information held by HMRC on individuals who could be liable to UK income tax. Not all dividends and savings income is reported to HMRC. There is not always a requirement to report income from dividends or savings which fall within the Dividend Allowance or the Personal Savings Allowance. Dividend and savings incomes of individuals not in Self-Assessment are estimated from other sources, including the Family Resources Survey.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of individuals receiving relief from these allowances is likely to be greater than the figures above. HMRC does not hold information for all people with incomes below the Personal Allowance (£10,000 in 2014-15).</p><p> </p><p>There are also other mechanisms by which income is exempted from income tax, such as Investment income generated within Individual Savings Accounts. This income does not benefit from the reliefs in question.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 128528 128530 128531 question first answered 23/02/2018 13:35:32 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

845558

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received relief from income tax on personal dividend allowance in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	128530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows estimates for the number of people receiving income tax or National Insurance Contributions relief for each of the requested allowances. The estimates show people that would face a higher tax liability if the individual allowances and/or thresholds were removed, and include people who are currently non-taxpayers where their income is covered by these thresholds and/or allowances.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Estimates of the number of people who received tax/NIC relief (Millions)<sup> (1)</sup></p></td></tr><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>Personal Allowance</p></td><td><p>46.2</p></td><td><p>46.5</p></td><td><p>46.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Class 1 National Insurance: Primary Threshold</p></td><td><p>29.9</p></td><td><p>30.3</p></td><td><p>30.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Personal Savings Allowance</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>18.0</p></td><td><p>18.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dividend Allowance</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>(1) </strong>The figures are rounded to the nearest hundred thousand and presented in millions.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Information for the Personal Savings Allowance and the Dividend Allowance is only available from 2016-17 onwards, as they were introduced in April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates are based on the 2014-15 Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI), projected to 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 using economic assumptions consistent with the office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p><p> </p><p>The SPI is based on information held by HMRC on individuals who could be liable to UK income tax. Not all dividends and savings income is reported to HMRC. There is not always a requirement to report income from dividends or savings which fall within the Dividend Allowance or the Personal Savings Allowance. Dividend and savings incomes of individuals not in Self-Assessment are estimated from other sources, including the Family Resources Survey.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of individuals receiving relief from these allowances is likely to be greater than the figures above. HMRC does not hold information for all people with incomes below the Personal Allowance (£10,000 in 2014-15).</p><p> </p><p>There are also other mechanisms by which income is exempted from income tax, such as Investment income generated within Individual Savings Accounts. This income does not benefit from the reliefs in question.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 128528 128529 128531 question first answered 23/02/2018 13:35:32 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

845559

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people received relief from national insurance contributions under the primary threshold in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	128531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows estimates for the number of people receiving income tax or National Insurance Contributions relief for each of the requested allowances. The estimates show people that would face a higher tax liability if the individual allowances and/or thresholds were removed, and include people who are currently non-taxpayers where their income is covered by these thresholds and/or allowances.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Estimates of the number of people who received tax/NIC relief (Millions)<sup> (1)</sup></p></td></tr><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>Personal Allowance</p></td><td><p>46.2</p></td><td><p>46.5</p></td><td><p>46.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Class 1 National Insurance: Primary Threshold</p></td><td><p>29.9</p></td><td><p>30.3</p></td><td><p>30.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Personal Savings Allowance</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>18.0</p></td><td><p>18.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dividend Allowance</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>(1) </strong>The figures are rounded to the nearest hundred thousand and presented in millions.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Information for the Personal Savings Allowance and the Dividend Allowance is only available from 2016-17 onwards, as they were introduced in April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates are based on the 2014-15 Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI), projected to 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 using economic assumptions consistent with the office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p><p> </p><p>The SPI is based on information held by HMRC on individuals who could be liable to UK income tax. Not all dividends and savings income is reported to HMRC. There is not always a requirement to report income from dividends or savings which fall within the Dividend Allowance or the Personal Savings Allowance. Dividend and savings incomes of individuals not in Self-Assessment are estimated from other sources, including the Family Resources Survey.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of individuals receiving relief from these allowances is likely to be greater than the figures above. HMRC does not hold information for all people with incomes below the Personal Allowance (£10,000 in 2014-15).</p><p> </p><p>There are also other mechanisms by which income is exempted from income tax, such as Investment income generated within Individual Savings Accounts. This income does not benefit from the reliefs in question.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 128528 128529 128530 question first answered 23/02/2018 13:35:32 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

845619

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Black Economy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the size of the UK shadow economy as a percentage of GDP.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	128591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not available. However, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does produce estimates of the effect of the hidden economy on tax revenues. In its latest publication, HMRC estimates the hidden economy tax gap at £3.5 billion in 2015-16. This estimate can be found in the summary of the ‘Measuring tax gaps’ publication, available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/measuring-tax-gaps</a>.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC also commissioned NatCen Social Research to undertake a quantitative survey to better understand the nature and number of people involved in the hidden economy, as well as their characteristics. Findings are available in the report ‘The Hidden Economy in Great Britain’, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-hidden-economy-in-great-britain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-hidden-economy-in-great-britain</a>.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/02/2018 14:35:06 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane