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1695226

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that public sector workers in Northern Ireland are able to receive a pay award that is equal to levels in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	18166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government is providing the Northern Ireland Executive with a comprehensive £3.3 billion spending settlement to stabilise public services, better manage public finances and pave the way for transformation of public services.</p><p>Within this package, the UK Government provided £846 million to support the Northern Ireland Executive’s budget pressures in 2023-24, including public sector pay pressures</p><p><br>It is the Executive’s responsibility to decide on the level of public sector pay awards for devolved areas in Northern Ireland and to balance these costs against other priorities.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 19/03/2024 12:13:05 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1695308

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Finance
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 adequacy of the funding allocation for HM Revenue and Customs in financial year 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	18192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>The government regularly reviews the levels of funding provided to HMRC. The 2021 Spending Review settlement gave HMRC a £0.9bn cash increase over Parliament, from £4.3bn in 2019/20 to £5.2bn in 2024/25.</p><p>Additional funding was also provided to HMRC at the recent Budget to ensure the department is able to collect the taxes that are due.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 19/03/2024 12:10:31 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1695514

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the value attributed to a prevented fatality in his Department's Green Book.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	18334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government uses a common value for the Value of a Prevented Fatality (VPF). The monetary valuation of VPF can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tag-data-book.</p><p>It is uprated annually in line with inflation and real income growth. It is reviewed by HM Treasury on an ongoing basis and updated when new evidence becomes available.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 20/03/2024 17:03:01 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1694559

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Finance: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department takes to ensure that the positive financial impact of measures in the Budget is equally experienced by people (a) with and (b) without protected characteristics.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>When developing policy, including at Spring Budget 2024, the Treasury carefully considers the impact of its decisions on those sharing any of the nine protected characteristics, including sex, race, disability and age, in line with its statutory obligations and strong commitment to promoting fairness.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 13/03/2024 12:10:45 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1694569

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	NHS and Public Sector: Productivity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) Public Sector Productivity Programme and (b) NHS productivity plan.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The government published detail on the Public Sector Productivity Programme in the Spring Budget. This included the announcement of £4.2 billion to drive productivity in the NHS and the wider public sector, and a separate document, Seizing the Opportunity, that outlined work to date across government to improve efficiency and productivity in counter-fraud, procurement, project management, asset management and digital transformation.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/03/2024 10:26:54 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1694570

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.20 of the Spring Budget 2024, HC 560, if he will take steps to ensure the (a) governance and (b) accountability of the £3.4 billion allocated to the NHS.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government and NHS England have been working closely together on plans to improve productivity following the publication of the Long Term Workforce Plan last summer, including on the announcement last week of £3.4bn additional investment allowing the NHS to commit to a significant increase in productivity growth.</p><p>This investment will continue to remain subject to close work between Government and NHS, recognising its importance for ensuring the NHS’s sustainability and ability to deliver better outcomes for patients.</p><p>To support delivery of the productivity programme, Spring Budget also highlighted that an external expert advisory panel will be convened to ensure that technological and digital transformation plans have the support and challenge to deliver on its goals, with NHS England also starting reporting against new productivity metrics regularly from the second half of 2024-25. Further detail will be set out in due course</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/03/2024 10:56:33 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1694572

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing funding for local government in the Spring Budget 2024.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The Chancellor and Chief Secretary hold regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on spending priorities for fiscal events.</p><p>Local councils play an essential role in the fabric of our country – providing services which we all rely on and supporting some of the most vulnerable people in our communities.</p><p>That is why the final Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25 makes available up to £64.7 billion in total for local authorities in England, which includes the £600 million of additional measures that was announced on 24 January in response to representations from local government stakeholders. This is an increase in overall Core Spending Power of 7.5%, or up to £4.5 billion, on 2023-24, an above-inflation increase.</p><p>The Government is continuing to support all councils by providing a sector-wide Funding Guarantee, ensuring all local authorities see a minimum 4% increase in Core Spending Power before local council tax decisions.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/03/2024 10:58:35 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1694573

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing funding for SEND provision in the Spring Budget 2024.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The Chancellor and Chief Secretary hold regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on spending priorities for fiscal events.</p><p>Spring Budget 2024 committed to an initial £105 million over the next four years towards a wave of 15 special free schools. This will create over 2,000 additional high-quality places across England for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>In the 2024/25 financial year, high needs revenue funding is rising to over £10.5 billion, an increase of over 60% from 2019/20. We also published the SEND and alternative provision improvement plan last year, which set out our plans to reform the system so that children and young people with SEND will get high-quality, early support wherever they live in the country.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/03/2024 11:21:26 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1694574

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing funding for (a) social care and (b) the Better Care Fund in the Spring Budget 2024.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The Chancellor and Chief Secretary hold regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on spending priorities for fiscal events.</p><p>The government has now made available up to £8.6bn in additional funding over this financial year and next to support adult social care and discharge. This includes £500m announced in January which has specifically been made available to support local authorities with the cost of social care in 2024-25 in response to representations from local government stakeholders. This funding will enable local authorities to buy more care packages, help people leave hospital on time, improve workforce recruitment and retention, and reduce waiting times for care.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/03/2024 11:16:12 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1694575

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance
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 impact of reductions in national insurance on (a) public services and (b) investment in business.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>National Insurance cuts are part of the Government’s long-term plan to grow the economy.</p><p>By taking a disciplined approach to public spending, driving productivity in the public sector, and ensuring our tax system is balanced and fair; the government can continue cutting taxes responsibly, while ensuring public finances continue to be managed sustainably.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 13/03/2024 12:13:41 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell