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934169

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fossil Fuels: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Government spent from the public purse on (a) subsidies, (b) investment and (c) research and development in the fossil fuel energy sectors in each of the last 10 financial years and to date in the 2018 - 2019 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	160319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK currently has no fossil fuel subsidies. We are committed to meeting our climate change commitments as cost effectively as possible and over the last 10 years emissions from the power sector have decreased by 57%. Looking ahead we have committed to further reducing our dependence on fossil fuels by phasing out unabated coal from our power system altogether by 2025. The Government is also enabling the transition away from fossil fuels in the transport sector by supporting the development of the market for ultra-low emission vehicles.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/07/2018 14:45:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

935015

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Accountancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has spent with the Big Four accountancy firms in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	161102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2018 answer text <p>Treasury has spent the following amounts in the last 12 months (to 30 June 2018):</p><p> </p><p>Ernst &amp; Young £42,221</p><p>KPMG £129,354</p><p>PWC £1,107,037</p><p>Deloitte £2,767,561</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 13/07/2018 13:58:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

935057

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the total cost to the public purse of alcohol duty freezes and reductions since 2013.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	161163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>Based on the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) published policy costings, we estimate the cumulative loss to the Exchequer from the successive alcohol duty freezes and cuts from financial year 2013-14 to the current financial year 2018-19 to be around £4.0bn. This is equal to the yearly cost of employing over 100,000 teachers.</p><p> </p><p>The annual impacts on the Exchequer are reported in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(£m)</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exchequer Impact</p></td><td><p>-170</p></td><td><p>-505</p></td><td><p>-685</p></td><td><p>-770</p></td><td><p>-820</p></td><td><p>-1,025</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These past decisions will also incur future losses to the Exchequer in years beyond 2018-19. The OBR’s costings of previously announced policies currently extend to 2022-23, and the future impact of these announced freezes and cuts in the alcohol duties to that year is estimated to be around £4.4bn.</p><p> </p><p>The future annual impacts are set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(£m)</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>2022-23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exchequer Impact</p></td><td><p>-1,050</p></td><td><p>-1,075</p></td><td><p>-1,105</p></td><td><p>-1,140</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The OBR’s policy costings are available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/download/policy-measures-database/" target="_blank">http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/download/policy-measures-database/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/07/2018 14:22:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

935101

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Natural Gas: Storage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review gas storage business rates after the decision of EDF to close the Hole House gas storage facility because of challenging market conditions.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	161050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK benefits from highly diverse and flexible sources of gas supply. Low gas prices have contributed to challenging market conditions in the gas storage market.</p><p> </p><p>The government recognises that business rates can represent a high cost for some businesses. That’s why it has taken repeated action to reduce their burden, announcing reforms and reductions worth over £10bn by 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/07/2018 09:11:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

934273

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fuels: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Government has made of the amount of fuel duty which has not accrued to the public purse as a result of the freeze in duty introduced in the March 2011 Budget.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	160145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>To support British households and businesses, at Autumn Budget 2017, the government froze fuel duty for the eighth successive year. Since public finances are based on the assumption that fuel duty will increase with RPI at every Budget, any increase below this represents a cost to the Exchequer. Successive freezes since 2011 have saved the average driver £620 compared to what it would have been with RPI increases.</p><p>Since 2011, the announced freezes to fuel duty have meant the Exchequer has not collected around £46 billion in revenues through to 2018-19. For the purposes of comparison, this is around twice as much as we spend on all NHS nurses and doctors each year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/07/2018 12:57:05 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

934316

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Hydrogen Fuelling Stations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to include hydrogen refuelling stations in the scope of the Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund in the future.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	160385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund is to catalyse private sector investment into the electric vehicle chargepoint network. There are separate interventions to support the uptake of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and roll out more cutting edge infrastructure. This includes funding which will see additional hydrogen refuelling stations being built as well as upgrades to existing refuelling infrastructure. In addition, government funding has supported the opening of the UK’s first integrated forecourt hydrogen refuelling station at the Shell Beaconsfield site, making it the first location in the country selling hydrogen fuel as well as petrol and diesel.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/07/2018 14:44:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

933819

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what time target his Department has for the answer of Departmental correspondence relating to constituency cases.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	159613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury’s target to answer correspondence relating to constituency cases is 15 working days. In 2017 we achieved this in 77% of cases.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/07/2018 14:35:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

933967

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Incinerators: Taxation
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 benefits to the (a) public purse and (b) environment of the introduction of an incineration tax.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	159496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2018 answer text <p>The government recently concluded a call for evidence on whether the tax system or charges could help reduce single-use plastic waste.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this, a number of respondents suggested the potential for an incineration tax in order to increase levels of recycling. The government will consider the arguments for and against such a tax, alongside all the other options, in order to deliver the right environmental outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>The government will outline the next steps in this process in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/07/2018 14:32:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

932184

registered interest
date	28/06/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fort Kinnaird: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2018 to Question 156466, on Fort Kinnaird: Sales, in what ways the revenue from the sale of the Crown Estate’s interest in Fort Kinnaird is planned to be used for the benefit of the UK as a whole.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	158771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Estate’s revenue surplus, including any from the sale of Fort Kinnaird, is passed to the UK Consolidated Fund, which funds activities across the whole of the UK. If the UK government spends more in England, then where policy areas are devolved, the Devolved Administrations will receive a population share of the funding through application of the Barnett formula, which they will be able to spend in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland as they wish.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/07/2018 16:47:21 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

931783

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Diesel: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to tackle the availability and use of illegal diesel fuel.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	158247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>HMRC continually refreshes its comprehensive anti-fraud oils strategy introduced in 2002, when fuel duty fraud involving illicit diesel cost the UK around £1.6bn in lost revenue. Latest estimates for 2016-17 indicate the tax gap for fuel duty has fallen to £200m across the UK. In Northern Ireland, where fuel fraud has been a particular problem, the illicit market share has reduced from 26% to 6% over the same period.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 05/07/2018 09:39:30 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon