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1219318

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Local Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many local authority staff are furloughed in each local authority; and what the cost to the public purse is of furloughed staff in each local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Poole
	tabling member printed	Sir Robert Syms
	uin	66809
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2020 answer text <p>Applications for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) opened on Monday 20th April. By midnight 28 June 2020, 1.1m employers had submitted claims to HMRC representing 9.3m employees furloughed and £25.5bn.</p><p> </p><p>On 11 June HMRC released analysis of employer take up, which can be found on GOV.UK. HMRC do not require employers to provide addresses of their employees as part of their CJRS claim and so is unable to provide an accurate picture of employee take up by location.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/07/2020 09:29:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

485716

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Smoking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with police forces on the level of enforcement of legislation on smoking in vehicles with children present; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Poole
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Syms
	uin	32262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>Discussions are ongoing between Departmental officials and the relevant authorities about enforcement action. Guidance on the enforcement process has been sent to police forces and, as with other smokefree legislation, we expect high levels of compliance with this change.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 13/04/2016 11:51:32 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

1273883

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2021
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Multinational Companies: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with multinational companies based in the UK on relocation regulations for employees being relocated into the UK by firms in the EU after the transition period; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Poole
	tabling member printed	Sir Robert Syms
	uin	133633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>Employees of EU firms who are not UK nationals being relocated into the UK can apply under the intra-company transfer route that our immigration system provides for. Under the UK’s domestic immigration rules, intra-company transferees may be admitted for up to 5 years (and for up to 9 years in the case of high earners) to all successful applications, regardless of where they come from, including from the EU. The UK-EU Trade &amp; Cooperation Agreement commits to 90-day processing times for intra-corporate transfer applications. In addition, both parties have agreed to provisions for accompanying family members of such intra-company transferees.</p><p> </p><p>The provisions for intra-company transferees were informed through detailed conversations with hundreds of stakeholders across UK business sectors, including multinational companies who benefit from the intra-company transfer route.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 15/01/2021 14:19:15 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

1272305

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Income Tax
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much income tax revenue was generated from people holding a work visa in the category of skilled work visa in the 2018-19 financial year; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Poole
	tabling member printed	Sir Robert Syms
	uin	131171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>HMRC do not hold information on the visa status of workers paying income tax.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/01/2021 12:10:43 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

1272314

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, what assessment she has made of whether travel restrictions during the covid-19 pandemic have reduced the number of professional staff being relocated to the UK for the purpose of taking up professional employment; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Poole
	tabling member printed	Sir Robert Syms
	uin	131173
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2021 answer text <p>In the period in question, the relocation of non-EEA national personnel by a multinational business to a UK branch or subsidiary of that business was facilitated primarily through the Tier 2 (Intra-Company Transfer) category of the Immigration Rules.</p><p>The most recent published migration statistics can be viewed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 12/01/2021 15:14:38 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

1272320

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if (a) she and (b) her officials will meet with the Chair of the Association of Relocation Professionals on supporting high value jobs through relocation to the UK after the transition period.
	tabling member constituency	Poole
	tabling member printed	Sir Robert Syms
	uin	131174
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>My officials regularly meet with businesses and associations across the country. I have asked them to make contact with the Association of Relocation Professionals to initiate a meeting to discuss supporting the relocation of high value jobs to the UK.</p><p>Our country has a proud and hard-won reputation as one of the most open economies and one of the foremost destinations for inward investment in the world. The Department supported 1,449 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects during the 2019/20 financial year, which created almost 45,000 new jobs and safeguarded a further 8,000.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 11/01/2021 17:30:49 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

469019

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Unemployment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on reducing the number of workless households.
	tabling member constituency	Poole
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Syms
	uin	904059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>Since 2010 the number of workless households has fallen by over 680,000 to its lowest level since records began.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/03/2016 16:37:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

485534

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cumulative loss in revenue to HM Treasury has been as a result of the effect of tobacco control measures over the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Poole
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Syms
	uin	32263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department assesses the impact of all proposed measures before laying legislation using standard government methodology. These assessments are set out in Impact Assessments which are scrutinised by the Regulatory Policy Committee before publication alongside the Statutory Instrument. Impact Assessments include a thorough analysis of the costs, benefits and risks associated with policy options.</p><p>A number of the tobacco measures contain commitments to further review the impact of the legislation within five years of them coming into force.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 32264 question first answered 11/04/2016 08:49:14 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

485535

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the potential reduction in revenue to the public purse resulting from the EU Tobacco Products Directive.
	tabling member constituency	Poole
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Syms
	uin	32264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department assesses the impact of all proposed measures before laying legislation using standard government methodology. These assessments are set out in Impact Assessments which are scrutinised by the Regulatory Policy Committee before publication alongside the Statutory Instrument. Impact Assessments include a thorough analysis of the costs, benefits and risks associated with policy options.</p><p>A number of the tobacco measures contain commitments to further review the impact of the legislation within five years of them coming into force.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 32263 question first answered 11/04/2016 08:49:14 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

61686

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what fraction of global carbon dioxide emissions will be represented by UK carbon dioxide emissions over the lifetime of the proposed wind farm at Navitus Bay.
	tabling member constituency	Poole
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Syms
	uin	200454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not undertake analysis or hold information of this nature relating to specific developments. In 2012 it was estimated that UK carbon dioxide emissions accounted for approximately 1.5% of global total carbon dioxide emissions.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Gregory Barker question first answered 18/06/2014 13:07:49 answering member 1389 label Biography information for Lord Barker of Battle
	tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms