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date	13/05/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Trader Support Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies have signed up to the Trader Support Service in each of the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	1225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2021 answer text <p>The Trader Support Service has been open to registrations since November 2020. Since then over 38,400 businesses have registered in total.</p><p> </p><p>The registrations by month are as follows:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>November 2020 – 16,809</p><p>December 2020 – 8,180</p><p>January 2021 – 7,011</p><p>February 2021 – 2,789</p><p>March 2021 – 2,094</p><p>April 2021 – 1,063</p><p>May 2021 – 503 (to date)</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/05/2021 11:40:26 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1305021

registered interest
date	23/03/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date the fourth self-employed income support grant is planned to open for applications.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	174338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2021 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given on 23 March 2021 to UIN 171650.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 29/03/2021 12:45:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1272997

registered interest
date	30/12/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in Northern Ireland accessed support through the Self Employment Income Support Scheme in 2020; and what the total amount of that support was.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	133297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>By 31 July 2020, 78,000 individuals from Northern Ireland had claimed the first SEISS grant and the total claim amount was £223,000,000.</p><p> </p><p>By 31 October 2020, 70,000 individuals from Northern Ireland had claimed the second SEISS grant and the total claim amount was £175,000,000.</p><p> </p><p>By 31 October 2020, 81,000 individuals from Northern Ireland had claimed either the first or second SEISS grant or both and the total claim amount was £398,000,000.</p><p> </p><p>These figures were taken from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme statistics published on 21 August and 25 November respectively.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/01/2021 11:56:44 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1260294

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and what proportion of funds paid through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme have been voluntarily paid back to his Department by companies that were entitled to the payment; how many companies in Northern Ireland have made such payments; and what the amount was of each such payment.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	128328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>As of 3 November 2020, Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) grants to the value of £382 million have been recorded as returned. This figure consists of £198 million in payments being repaid and £184 million in adjustments to existing claims.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC do not hold information by the geographic breakdown requested.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/12/2020 10:58:07 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1257205

registered interest
date	01/12/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Hospitality Industry: VAT
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 effect of the reduction in VAT for the hospitality industry to 5 per cent on the viability of that sector.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	123734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2020 answer text <p>The temporary reduced rate of VAT (five per cent) was introduced in order to support the cash flow and viability of over 150,000 businesses and protect 2.4 million jobs in the hospitality and tourism sectors. This relief comes at an estimated cost of £2.54 billion and is therefore expected to have benefited the sector by reducing its VAT liabilities by this amount.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/12/2020 11:23:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1249379

registered interest
date	06/11/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Stamp Duty Land Tax: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the stamp duty holiday on the housing market in Northern Ireland, and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending that stamp duty holiday beyond March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	112160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2020 answer text <p>SDLT transactions in Northern Ireland have reached similar levels to this time last year and, in August, average house prices had risen over the year by 3%.</p><p> </p><p>The temporary increase in the Stamp Duty Land Tax nil rate band was designed to create immediate momentum within the property market, where property transactions fell by as much as 50 per cent during the first COVID-19 lockdown. The downturn in the market meant that the future was uncertain for many people whose jobs relied on custom from the property industry. There are already early signs that demand and transactions have increased, and are continuing to rise, since the increase to the SDLT nil rate band was announced in July.</p><p> </p><p>As the relief was designed to provide an immediate stimulus to the property market, the Government does not plan to extend this relief and will continue to monitor the property market.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/11/2020 16:15:09 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart