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1027382

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fuels: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions his Department has had with representatives of the petroleum retail industry on fuel prices in rural and remote areas.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	202872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>Ministers and officials hold regular discussions with representatives of the petroleum sector on a range of issues, including fuel prices.</p><p> </p><p>The rural fuel duty rebate scheme allows around 125,000 people living in the UK’s most rural communities, including on the Scottish mainland and Scottish Islands, to benefit from a five pence per litre fuel price cut. The government also recognises that fuel costs remain a significant part of business and household costs, particularly in rural areas. That is why at Budget 2018, the Chancellor announced the main rate of fuel duty would remain frozen for the ninth successive year, which by April 2020 will have saved the average driver a cumulative £1000 compared to pre-2010 escalator plans.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/12/2018 16:06:14 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

1024809

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	British Business Bank: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to increase funding for the British Business Bank to make up the difference between the £200 million it was allocated in Budget 2018 and the £1.89 billion that the European Investment Bank allocated to UK projects in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	202139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>Businesses and infrastructure projects raise finance from the private market, with important UK government support.</p><p> </p><p>The European Investment Bank Group provides finance alongside other market participants. In 2017, the European Investment Bank, which predominantly invests in infrastructure projects, invested EUR 1.84bn in the UK. Its SME risk-finance focused subsidiary, the European Investment Fund, invested EUR 61.05m in UK operations in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>As we leave the EU, we continue to actively explore options for a future relationship with the European Investment Bank Group. However, as the Chancellor has been clear, if we do not maintain our relationship with the EIB group, we will be prepared.</p><p> </p><p>The government has a range of existing tools in place to support infrastructure and SME finance. This includes, the £40 billion UK Guarantees Scheme and the British Business Bank. British Business Bank programmes are supporting more than £5.5bn of finance to over 78,000 smaller businesses. The British Business Bank has capacity to make commitments this year exceeding the combined average annual commitments from the European Investment Fund and British Business Bank in the three years preceding the referendum.</p><p> </p><p>The government announced at the Budget that we will review our support for infrastructure finance, to ensure good projects continue to be able to access the finance they need. If no future relationship with the EIB Group is in place when the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019, the government will provide the British Business Bank with new resources to enable it to make up to £200m additional investment in venture capital and growth finance in 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/12/2018 16:53:05 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1023109

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress has been made on the creation of local industrial strategies.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	908143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>We will work with all Local Enterprise Partnerships and Mayoral Combined Authorities across England to develop Local Industrial Strategies.</p><p> </p><p>We have already been working with Greater Manchester, West Midlands, and partners across the Oxford-Cambridge Arc to develop ‘trailblazer’ Local Industrial Strategies, which we expect to be completed in the first half of next year.</p><p> </p><p>We will then be working with a second ‘wave’ of places including the Leicester &amp; Leicestershire LEP that covers Harborough.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/12/2018 14:56:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1023179

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to table the increased affordability of alcohol.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	201157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>The price of alcoholic drinks is a matter for businesses and consumers. However policies such as alcohol duty can have an impact, for example to address the issue of overconsumption of cheaper so-called “white cider” the government is legislating in the current Finance Bill for a new, higher, rate of duty.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury keeps all taxes, including alcohol duty, under review.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/12/2018 13:33:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1023346

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of ministerial visits of his Department to discuss the withdrawal agreement from 3 to 10 December 2018; and if he will place the itineraries of those visits in the Library before the Christmas recess.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	201275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Government Departments publish Ministers’ and Senior Officials’ travel, hospitality and external meetings on a quarterly basis. The data for December will be processed as part of the October to December quarterly return which will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Previous publications can be found here at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/senior-officials-expenses" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/senior-officials-expenses</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/12/2018 15:19:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1023024

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings Ministers of his department have had with representatives of (a) the alcohol industry and (b) organisations working to reduce alcohol-related harm in 2018; and if he will publish the (i) dates, (ii) attendees and (iii) topics of each of those meetings.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	200639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>Details of all ministerial meetings are routinely published on the Gov.UK website, details can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel</p><p> </p><p>Ministers and officials regularly meet with stakeholders to discuss alcohol duty and related issues, including the health impacts of alcohol.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/12/2018 16:50:39 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1020787

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Carbon Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to reduce the rate of the UK carbon tax.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	200125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Carbon Price Support is a tax on fossil fuels used in power generation in Great Britain which provides a ‘top-up’ to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to form the Total Carbon Price.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Budget 2018, Carbon Price Support rates will be frozen at £18/tCO<sub>2</sub> in 2020-21. From 2021-22, the government will seek to lower CPS rates if the Total Carbon Price remains high.</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to meeting its climate change commitments including reducing carbon emissions by at least 80% of 1990 levels by 2050, and meeting interim carbon budgets, whilst also ensuring the continued competitiveness of UK businesses. The tax system is an important part of this.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/12/2018 15:18:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1020595

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	A303 and Lower Thames Crossing: Private Finance Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November to Question 188205, what range of models involving investment in infrastructure his Department plans to use to meet the proposals set out in the 2017 National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	199867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline has been updated for 2018 and was published on the 26 November. This sets out planned and projected investment of over £600 billion over the next decade.</p><p>The UK uses a mixed model, using both public and private investment, to fund and finance its infrastructure.</p><p>Funding and financing arrangements for individual projects and programmes are outlined in the pipeline spreadsheet.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/12/2018 14:31:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1020230

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Productivity Investment Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of money the National Productivity Investment Fund will allocate in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	199322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) will provide £37 billion of capital investment between 2017-18 and 2023-24 to support jobs and growth.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor has set out how over £27 billion of this funding will be allocated across housing, transport, digital infrastructure and R&amp;D. The remaining funding will be allocated at future fiscal events.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of allocations can be found on page 54 of the Autumn Budget 2018 document: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752202/Budget_2018_red_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752202/Budget_2018_red_web.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/12/2018 15:38:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1020236

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government has established a decommissioning fund to ensure funding for the transferable tax history policy.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199458 199459 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis