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647064

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Flood Control: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing capital and revenue funding for flood risk management projects to local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	55089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>This is answered on the basis that ‘developing’ should read ‘devolving’ in the question above: such that the question refers to the potential to devolve flood risk management funding for England to local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Government targets flood risk management funding to minimise household risk and wider economic impacts; and this requires a national perspective on the allocation of grants.</p><p> </p><p>However, local areas already provide significant input into flood risk management in their area: with local authorities, internal drainage boards, Regional Flood and Coastal Committees and the Environment Agency area teams deciding which flood defence improvement schemes to build and promote into the national capital programme.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the lead government department for flooding policy.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/12/2016 15:51:07 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

647070

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Productivity Investment Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2016 to Question 54558, whether it is his Department's policy that the National Productivity Investment Fund will fund a minimum number of projects based outside London; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	55190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>The government has established a National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) to provide £23bn of additional spending between 2017/18 and 2021/22. Every penny spent by the UK government is explicitly earmarked for areas that are critical to boosting productivity: economic infrastructure (transport and digital communications), Research and Development (R&amp;D), and housing.</p><p> </p><p>Further details about specifically how and where this money will be invested will be set out by the relevant departments and agencies in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Where spending on measures within the NPIF does not extend to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, the devolved administrations will receive funding through the Barnett formula in the usual way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/12/2016 15:56:59 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

647076

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential future effect on households in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK of the freeze on working age benefits consequential on the upward revision by the Office of Budget Responsibility of CPI inflation in its Economic and Fiscal Outlook of November 2016.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	55221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>The freeze on working-age benefits came into effect in April 2016. The Government does not hold a costing of this measure based on the Autumn Statement inflation assumptions, as neither it nor the OBR updates costings of previously announced measures that have already come into force. At the Autumn Statement the Government published analysis showing the cumulative impact of taxation, welfare and public spending measures implemented over this Parliament, in 2019-20, on UK households. This analysis included the freeze on working age benefits and the latest OBR economic forecasts.</p><p> </p><p>This analysis can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-statement-2016-documents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-statement-2016-documents</a></p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 55222 question first answered 01/12/2016 15:45:53 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

647077

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish updated costings of the effect on households in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK of the freeze on working age benefits consequential on the upward revision by the Office of Budget Responsibility of CPI inflation in its Economic and Fiscal Outlook of November 2016.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	55222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>The freeze on working-age benefits came into effect in April 2016. The Government does not hold a costing of this measure based on the Autumn Statement inflation assumptions, as neither it nor the OBR updates costings of previously announced measures that have already come into force. At the Autumn Statement the Government published analysis showing the cumulative impact of taxation, welfare and public spending measures implemented over this Parliament, in 2019-20, on UK households. This analysis included the freeze on working age benefits and the latest OBR economic forecasts.</p><p> </p><p>This analysis can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-statement-2016-documents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-statement-2016-documents</a></p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 55221 question first answered 01/12/2016 15:45:53 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

647078

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 5.15 of the Autumn Statement 2016, how much he plans to make available for the next round of Tampon Tax Fund allocations.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	55213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>Last year, the government announced an annual £15m Tampon Tax Fund to support women’s charities across the UK. This is the estimated amount raised from VAT on women’s sanitary products. At this year’s Autumn Statement, the government announced that it would launch the next round of the Tampon Tax Fund on 1 December 2016.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/12/2016 15:41:08 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

647083

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2016 to Question 54558, what steps he plans to take to determine which infrastructure projects to fund from the National Productivity Investment Fund; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	55188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>Paragraph 3.9 of the Autumn Statement details the allocation approach for the National Productivity and Investment Fund.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/12/2016 15:54:42 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

647296

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether under the proposed limitation of child tax credits to the first two children in a household, a third child in that household with a date of birth after April 2017 would be eligible for child tax credit payment, if the second child were cared for under kinship care arrangements or had been born as a result of non-consensual sex.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	55214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>In future, all families - those in receipt of benefits and those supporting themselves solely through work - will be faced with the same sorts of financial considerations when making decisions about having more children. Families will no longer be able to claim additional support through Child Tax Credit (CTC) for third or subsequent children in a family where the child is born on or after 6 April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>However, recognising that some parents or carers are not in the same position to make a choice, the Government has been clear that there would be exceptions for third and subsequent children for certain groups. This includes children who are in kinship care arrangements or born from non-consensual sex.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/12/2016 15:58:57 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

644286

registered interest
date	25/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Local Growth Deals: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Growth Deal funding he plans to make available to the Mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority from May 2017.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
uin	54936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2016 answer text <p>The Autumn Statement announced that the government will award £1.8 billion to Local Enterprise Partnerships across England. LEPs in the Midlands will receive a total of £392 million. Funding awarded to the West Midlands Combined Authority will be on top of the £162.7m already made available to the Black Country LEP from 2015/16, £89.4m to Coventry and Warwickshire and £378.8m to the Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP. Awards to individual LEPs will be announced in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 30/11/2016 17:23:47 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

643815

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the full analysis undertaken by his Department's tax and benefit microsimulation model on the Autumn Statement 2016.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	54874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government published analysis showing the impact of taxation, welfare and public spending decisions taken at Autumn Statement 2016. This distributional analysis used HM Treasury’s microsimulation model.</p><p> </p><p>This analysis can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-statement-2016-documents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-statement-2016-documents</a></p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 29/11/2016 17:52:14 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

643817

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Regional Planning and Development: Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Government plans to publish the Midlands Engine strategy.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
uin	54824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>As announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Autumn Statement, the Midlands Engine strategy will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 29/11/2016 17:40:23 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey