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date	24/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Soft Drinks: Taxation
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 effectiveness of the introduction of the sugar tax on reducing the sugar content of soft drinks.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	168131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The Levy is designed to tackle childhood obesity by incentivising producers and importers to reduce the amount of added-sugar in the drinks they sell. So far, over half of all drinks that would otherwise have been in-scope have reduced their sugar content.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England have also released ‘Sugar reduction: report on first year progress’ which shows that soft drinks manufacturers are leading the way in reducing sugar in their product.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sugar-reduction-report-on-first-year-progress" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sugar-reduction-report-on-first-year-progress</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/09/2018 12:43:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

947666

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Soft Drinks: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the soft drinks industry levy on sugar consumption levels in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	168061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The Levy is designed to tackle childhood obesity by incentivising producers and importers to reduce the amount of added-sugar in the drinks they sell. So far, over half of all drinks that would otherwise have been in-scope have reduced their sugar content.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England have also released ‘Sugar reduction: report on first year progress’ which shows that soft drinks manufacturers are leading the way in reducing sugar in their product.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sugar-reduction-report-on-first-year-progress" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sugar-reduction-report-on-first-year-progress</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/09/2018 12:46:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

947672

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Private Finance Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the most recent guidance on the use of PFI and PF2 issued by his Department is; and when that guidance was last updated.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	167878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The most recent guidance issued by HM Treasury on the use of Public Private Partnerships is in the Green Book, an updated version of which was published on 6 March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/09/2018 12:47:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

946853

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Public Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many contractors employed in (a) the Government Actuary's Department, (b) HM Revenue and Customs,(c) HM Treasury Group, (d) National Savings & Investments, (e) Office for National Statistics, (f) Royal Mint, and (g) Valuation Office Agency are paid £1,000 or more per day.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	167300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs<del class="ministerial"> currently</del> makes use of <del class="ministerial">2</del> <ins class="ministerial">one </ins>contractor<del class="ministerial">s</del> in that category. There are none being employed at the others.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/09/2018 14:09:39 question first ministerially corrected 10/09/2018 13:27:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 73089 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

946854

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Public Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many contractors employed in(a) the Government Actuary's Department, (b) HM Revenue and Customs, (c) HM Treasury Group, (d) National Savings & Investments, (e) Office for National Statistics, (f) Royal Mint and (g) Valuation Office Agency are paid £650 or more per day.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	167301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs currently makes use of 29 contractors in that category and the Valuation Office Agency currently makes use of 2. There are none at the others.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 04/09/2018 14:07:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law