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638595

registered interest
date	18/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much money has been claimed under the Small Charitable Donations Act 2012 in each year since 2013.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL3346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government maintains close and constructive links with charity sector representatives and is in regular dialogue with the sector. HM Revenue and Customs has set up an outreach team which is particularly focused on responding to the needs of smaller charities.</p><p>This team regularly makes visits to small charities and has provided face-to-face presentations to over 650, raising awareness and helping charities to receive support through the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme, as well as the full range of available tax reliefs to which they are entitled.</p><p> </p><p>Amounts claimed under the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme since 2013 are £6 million in 2013/14, £21 million in 2014/15 and £26 million in 2015/16. Figures for 2016/17 are not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>The costs of administering the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme and instances of malpractice are not available as they are included in the figures for the wider Gift Aid scheme, and cannot be separately extracted.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL3347 HL3348 HL3349 question first answered 02/12/2016 14:18:07 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

638596

registered interest
date	18/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the cost to HM Revenue and Customs of administering the Small Charitable Donations Act 2012 in each year since 2013.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL3347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government maintains close and constructive links with charity sector representatives and is in regular dialogue with the sector. HM Revenue and Customs has set up an outreach team which is particularly focused on responding to the needs of smaller charities.</p><p>This team regularly makes visits to small charities and has provided face-to-face presentations to over 650, raising awareness and helping charities to receive support through the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme, as well as the full range of available tax reliefs to which they are entitled.</p><p> </p><p>Amounts claimed under the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme since 2013 are £6 million in 2013/14, £21 million in 2014/15 and £26 million in 2015/16. Figures for 2016/17 are not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>The costs of administering the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme and instances of malpractice are not available as they are included in the figures for the wider Gift Aid scheme, and cannot be separately extracted.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL3346 HL3348 HL3349 question first answered 02/12/2016 14:18:07 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

638597

registered interest
date	18/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many instances of malpractice associated with the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme have been recorded since 2013.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL3348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government maintains close and constructive links with charity sector representatives and is in regular dialogue with the sector. HM Revenue and Customs has set up an outreach team which is particularly focused on responding to the needs of smaller charities.</p><p>This team regularly makes visits to small charities and has provided face-to-face presentations to over 650, raising awareness and helping charities to receive support through the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme, as well as the full range of available tax reliefs to which they are entitled.</p><p> </p><p>Amounts claimed under the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme since 2013 are £6 million in 2013/14, £21 million in 2014/15 and £26 million in 2015/16. Figures for 2016/17 are not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>The costs of administering the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme and instances of malpractice are not available as they are included in the figures for the wider Gift Aid scheme, and cannot be separately extracted.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL3346 HL3347 HL3349 question first answered 02/12/2016 14:18:07 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

638598

registered interest
date	18/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government in what ways HM Revenue and Customs promotes the Small Charitable Donations Scheme to small charities.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL3349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government maintains close and constructive links with charity sector representatives and is in regular dialogue with the sector. HM Revenue and Customs has set up an outreach team which is particularly focused on responding to the needs of smaller charities.</p><p>This team regularly makes visits to small charities and has provided face-to-face presentations to over 650, raising awareness and helping charities to receive support through the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme, as well as the full range of available tax reliefs to which they are entitled.</p><p> </p><p>Amounts claimed under the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme since 2013 are £6 million in 2013/14, £21 million in 2014/15 and £26 million in 2015/16. Figures for 2016/17 are not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>The costs of administering the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme and instances of malpractice are not available as they are included in the figures for the wider Gift Aid scheme, and cannot be separately extracted.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham grouped question UIN HL3346 HL3347 HL3348 question first answered 02/12/2016 14:18:07 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

638273

registered interest
date	17/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Bank of England
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 extent to which the Bank of England should be independent of the Government.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>A comprehensive Review of the Monetary Policy Framework was published in 2013, considering the benefits and costs of a number of different monetary policy frameworks. The review concluded that operational independence has helped improve credibility and accountability of monetary policy, leading to stable inflation and inflation expectations, and in turn macroeconomic stability.</p><p> </p><p>The current remit for the Monetary Policy Committee reflects the assessment set out in the 2013 Review, which reaffirms the Bank of England’s operation independence and a flexible inflation targeting framework.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 24/11/2016 17:30:06 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

637758

registered interest
date	16/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Foreign Exchange
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are planning to review the regulation of foreign exchange providers to ensure the protection of consumers buying foreign currency during periods of wide currency fluctuations.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL3272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government is reviewing the Payment Services Regulations as part of its implementation of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The Regulations apply to foreign exchange firms conducting a payment transaction as part of a currency exchange. There are currently no plans to review the regulation of foreign exchange providers more widely. However, Government will continue to monitor the sector to ensure that consumers and businesses using foreign exchange services are treated fairly.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/11/2016 14:30:09 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

637781

registered interest
date	16/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they have taken to prevent the use of aggressive tax avoidance schemes under which employers reduce their national insurance payments and exploit VAT rules designed to benefit very small businesses; and with what results.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL3294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2016 answer text <p>These schemes are under investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Penalties are in place for those caught attempting to avoid tax by using an avoidance scheme. This includes promoters of such schemes who can face fines of up to £1 million for failing to notify an avoidance scheme under the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes regime.</p><p> </p><p>In the last two years, HMRC has secured an additional £5.5 billion through targeting tax avoidance schemes<em>.</em> The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Autumn Statement 2016 that the Government will counter abuse of the VAT Flat Rate Scheme while keeping VAT accounting simple for the small businesses that use the scheme as intended.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 30/11/2016 14:20:45 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

637298

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Local Government 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 Local Government Association’s submission to the Autumn Statement 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
uin	HL3223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>Ahead of the Autumn Statement, HM Treasury received submissions from a range of stakeholders. While it would not be appropriate to respond in detail to each individual proposals, the government did carefully consider all submissions.</p><p> </p><p>In particular the Treasury responded to calls for more to be done on housing. The Chancellor announced at the Autumn Statement that government would invest an additional £5.3bn in housing. This includes a £2.3bn Housing Infrastructure Fund to deliver infrastructure to unlock 100,000 homes and £1.4bn to deliver 40,000 new affordable homes. Government also announced that it would relax restrictions on existing affordable housing funding to deliver a wider variety of affordable housing tenures to help people at different stages in their lives.</p><p> </p><p>Further reforms to increase housing supply will be brought forward through the Department for Communities and Local Government’s Housing White Paper, which will be published in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 29/11/2016 16:48:47 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

637309

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Banks: Regulation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the statement by the US President-elect that he intends to reinstate the Glass-Steagall rules, what assessment they have made of the impact this would have on the UK banking system.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2016 answer text <p>The government monitors the financial regulation policies of our international partners, including the US, as they develop.</p><p>In the UK, from the 1st of January 2019, our ring-fencing regime will require structural separation of core retail banking from investment banking for UK banks with retail deposits of more than £25 billion.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 24/11/2016 17:29:19 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

637323

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	EU Budget: Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Young of Cookham on 14 November (HL2994), whether they will set out in the body of their response the values in sterling asked for in the original question.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL3248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>Analysis of spending in the UK shows that we expect 7% of receipts to cover rural development and the environment, 44% to cover agriculture and fisheries and 27% to cover research and development under the 2014-20 Multiannual Financial Framework. The sterling value of those receipts will depend on a number of factors, including the timing of payments and the exchange rate prevailing at that time. Over 2010-14 the average annual value of UK receipts from the EU budget was £5.6bn.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 29/11/2016 16:47:45 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch