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1002211

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date	05/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Banks: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the European Banking Authority's recent analysis of the strength of UK banks in adverse scenarios.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL11232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government supports the use of stress tests as a tool to ensure the ongoing resilience of the European Union’s banking sector. Well capitalised banks, under a robust regulatory framework, are better able to lend to the economy, supporting jobs and growth. A full response to the European Banking Authority’s (EBA) report has been published by the Bank of England (BoE). The BoE noted that the results of the latest EBA test confirmed the results of earlier BoE stress tests that the participating UK banks would be resilient to a severe economic and market stress. The BoE will publish the results for its next annual stress tests on 5 December.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 19/11/2018 16:22:02 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1002244

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Overseas Loans: Republic of Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they have loaned to the Republic of Ireland during the past decade; and of those loans, (1) what capital has been repaid, and (2) how much interest has been received.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL11265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the most recent statutory report under section 2 of the Loans to Ireland Act 2010, which was laid in Parliament on 15 October 2018. The report shows that the outstanding principal is £3,226,960,000, with repayments due in tranches from 15 April 2019 until 26 March 2021. Interest payments have been paid twice-yearly since 15 December 2011 and payments received so far total £483,359,983.93. The government expects the loan to be repaid on time and in full.</p><p> </p><p>[1] The statutory report is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-under-section-2-of-the-loans-to-ireland-act-2010-1-april-2018-to-30-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-under-section-2-of-the-loans-to-ireland-act-2010-1-april-2018-to-30-september-2018</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/11/2018 15:45:58 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name Ireland_loan_statutory_report_September_2018_web.pdf title Loans to Ireland
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

999748

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Married People: Tax Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what projections they have made for expenditure on the Marriage Allowance in 2019–20, following changes to the basic and higher rates of personal tax allowance.
tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
uin	HL11193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The estimated cost of Marriage Allowance is shown annually in the HMRC publication ‘Estimated costs of principal tax reliefs’ up to the current tax year and will be available for 2018-19 in the next publication (in early 2019). An estimate of future years cost is not provided as there is still uncertainty around the increase in take-up by the end of 2019-20.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 15/11/2018 17:29:04 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

999767

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England regarding the case for (1) stress testing the capacity for open ended credit funds to withstand a credit shock, and (2) a review of the options available in the event of a significant decline in market liquidity.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL11212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The Financial Policy Committee (FPC) is an independent body responsible for monitoring and taking action to remove systemic risks to the financial system. The Chancellor sets a remit for the Committee each year related to its objectives. On 29 October the Chancellor set out the latest remit in a letter to the Governor of the Bank of England. Alongside the Prudential Regulation Committee (PRC), the FPC introduced an annual stress test of the largest UK banks and building societies in 2014. The FPC will conduct a comprehensive resilience assessment as part of the 2018 stress test at its meeting on 28 November. The Government supports the use of stress tests as a tool to ensure the ongoing resilience of the financial system.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 14/11/2018 16:51:35 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

999770

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they anticipate that current Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development rules relating to tax residency will be adhered to following Brexit.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL11215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK will continue to adhere to the OECD’s tax standards after Brexit. These include the provisions relating to residence in the OECD model treaty.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 15/11/2018 17:22:05 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

998907

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: VAT
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many small businesses participate in the VAT Flat-Rate Scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL11158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The latest published statistics show that in the last year for which figures are available (2016-17), there were 358,270 businesses operating the VAT Flat Rate Scheme (FRS).</p><p> </p><p>There is no separate impact assessment relating to businesses participating in the FRS. An overall Impact Assessment was published on 1 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>MTD is intended to help businesses meet their tax obligations as simply as possible, regardless of whether they operate standard or specialist schemes. While HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) cannot recommend specific software products, they have published details of compatible software on GOV.uk.</p><p> </p><p>This will be updated regularly as more MTD software products become available. HMRC has also published guidance within its recent VAT Notice 7/22 on GOV.UK on how to account for the FRS on software that does not have it as a feature.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL11159 HL11160 question first answered 14/11/2018 16:51:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

998908

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT: Electronic Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they conducted an equality impact assessment on the decision to apply Making Tax Digital to small businesses paying VAT using the VAT Flat-Rate Scheme; and if so, whether they will publish that assessment.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL11159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The latest published statistics show that in the last year for which figures are available (2016-17), there were 358,270 businesses operating the VAT Flat Rate Scheme (FRS).</p><p> </p><p>There is no separate impact assessment relating to businesses participating in the FRS. An overall Impact Assessment was published on 1 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>MTD is intended to help businesses meet their tax obligations as simply as possible, regardless of whether they operate standard or specialist schemes. While HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) cannot recommend specific software products, they have published details of compatible software on GOV.uk.</p><p> </p><p>This will be updated regularly as more MTD software products become available. HMRC has also published guidance within its recent VAT Notice 7/22 on GOV.UK on how to account for the FRS on software that does not have it as a feature.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL11158 HL11160 question first answered 14/11/2018 16:51:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

998909

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT: Electronic Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which commercial software available to small businesses using the VAT Flat-Rate Scheme are compliant with Making Tax Digital; and what are the costs of such software to those small businesses.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL11160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The latest published statistics show that in the last year for which figures are available (2016-17), there were 358,270 businesses operating the VAT Flat Rate Scheme (FRS).</p><p> </p><p>There is no separate impact assessment relating to businesses participating in the FRS. An overall Impact Assessment was published on 1 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>MTD is intended to help businesses meet their tax obligations as simply as possible, regardless of whether they operate standard or specialist schemes. While HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) cannot recommend specific software products, they have published details of compatible software on GOV.uk.</p><p> </p><p>This will be updated regularly as more MTD software products become available. HMRC has also published guidance within its recent VAT Notice 7/22 on GOV.UK on how to account for the FRS on software that does not have it as a feature.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL11158 HL11159 question first answered 14/11/2018 16:51:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

998476

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Companies: Debt
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on financial stability of the growth of leveraged corporate debt with weak lending covenants; what assessment they have made of any parallels with the situation before the global financial crisis; and what steps they intend to take to restrain that growth.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL11135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>The Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England is the body responsible for monitoring systemic risks in the financial sector and, where appropriate, taking action to remove or reduce systemic risks with a view to protecting and enhancing the resilience of the UK financial system. The FPC set out its most recent assessment of risks to UK financial stability in the Record of its 3 October meeting, published on 17 October. This included an assessment of the risks from corporate indebtedness and the growth in leveraged lending. The FPC will publish its next assessment of risks to UK financial stability in the Financial Stability Report on 5 December.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 08/11/2018 16:12:03 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

997070

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will require firms offering international money transfer services to show the difference between the exchange rate they are offering and the interbank rate after Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL11074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>Currently the Cross Border Payments Regulation (CPBR), an EU regulation, sets rules on the pricing of cross-border euro payments.</p><p> </p><p>A revised regulation, “CPBR2”, is currently under negotiation in the EU. The original Commission proposal, would, amongst other things, mandate greater transparency for cross-border payments which include currency conversion, through for example reference to the interbank exchange rate. The Government is broadly supportive of proposals which make financial services more affordable and pricing more transparent for consumers, while ensuring that regulation is proportionate to the risks that it seeks to address.</p><p>The Government is making good progress towards agreeing a Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, including an Implementation Period during which common rules would continue to apply until 31 December 2020.</p><p>After the Implementation Period, our proposal for the future UK-EU relationship on financial services would ensure that the development of regulation would be an autonomous matter for both the UK and the EU. Equally, we acknowledge that maintaining continued EU market access will, where necessary, involve maintaining comparable regulatory outcomes with the EU. The Chancellor has been clear that it is vitally important that the UK and the EU, with our common values and standards, continue to work closely together to further enhance the strong international rules we have forged in financial services. The Government has not committed to any changes to the policy outcomes of the current regime following the UK’s exit from the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 08/11/2018 15:57:14 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt