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224651

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Private Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value is of off-balance sheet public-private partnerships.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	226030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>A spreadsheet containing data on all operational PFI projects can be found on the following link, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-projects-2014-summary-data" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-projects-2014-summary-data</a>. Balance sheet treatments for each project are recorded in columns O, P and Q and the capital value is recorded in column R.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 05/03/2015 16:58:40 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

224186

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Garden Bridge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what funding he plans to provide to the Garden Bridge.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	225789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>As announced in the 2013 Autumn Statement, the Government is providing £30m part-funding towards the Garden Bridge project, with the Mayor contributing a further £30m to the project.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following scrutiny of the business case in 2014 the Government contribution of £30m was transferred to Transport for London in December 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 05/03/2015 17:00:25 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

224187

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tate Galleries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Tate Art Galleries on government support for their costs.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	225796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer has not had any recent discussions with the Tate Modern on support for their costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 05/03/2015 16:59:32 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

223536

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Government Departments: Land
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will update his Department's guidance on Managing Public Money, published in July 2013, to include consideration of social, economic and environmental value when government departments dispose of land assets.
tabling member constituency	Cheadle
tabling member printed	Mark Hunter
uin	225332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>When considering project options, Managing Public Money requires departments to follow the appraisal techniques in the Green book (Appraisal and Evaluation in Central Government). The Green Book describes how the economic, financial, social and environmental assessments of a policy, programme or project should be combined.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 05/03/2015 16:56:54 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	1598 label Biography information for Mark Hunter

223544

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Government Departments: Off-payroll Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost of off-payroll arrangements in government departments and their arm's length bodies was in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	225345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>Information regarding the total cost of off-payroll workers broken down by individual government departments and their arm’s length bodies is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Departmental spending on consultancy, which is one element of total spending on off-payroll workers, is collected by the Cabinet Office. Consultancy spending has reduced by almost three quarters over this Parliament, from £1.2 billion in 2009-10 to £316 million in 2013-14. This followed work to simplify and strengthen the management of consultancy expenditure across government.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Off-payroll workers play an important role in helping public sector organisations meet short term needs for specialist advice and interim services.</p><p> </p><p>It is essential that government employers are able to assure themselves that their higher paid contract workers and most senior staff are meeting their tax obligations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>New tighter rules governing ‘off-payroll’ appointments in central government were established in May 2012 when I, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, published the Review of the Tax Arrangements of Public Sector Appointees.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The recommendations of the Review mean that the most senior staff must go on the payroll, and departments are now able to seek assurance in relation to the tax arrangements of their long-term, high paid contractors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Treasury carried out an evaluation of compliance with the rules which was published on 11 March 2014. This revealed that departments sought assurance on the tax affairs of 1,940 of their contractors, and 125 contracts were terminated or ended and were referred to HMRC for further investigation as a result of these rules. The Treasury has also issued £1.5 million in fines in 2014 to a small number of departments who did not fully comply with the requirements of the guidance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 03/03/2015 15:19:01 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

223554

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to introduce a system of grant funding for the training of professional freight drivers.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	225458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>The road haulage sector provides a vital economic service, and its effectiveness is of crucial importance for a whole range of other industrial, commercial and service businesses in the UK as well as ensuring essential goods can be provided to the general public.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I am aware of the concerns that the industry has about recruitment of drivers, and the Government is looking into this matter to understand better why this has occurred and whether there is anything that it would be appropriate for Government to do in this area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 05/03/2015 16:57:50 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

179536

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	HM 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 Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the capital value is of each PFI contract formed since the inception of that policy; and what amount the Government is contracted to repay in each such case.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Austin Mitchell
uin	224365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>A spreadsheet containing data on all operational PFI projects can be found on the following link, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-projects-2014-summary-data" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-projects-2014-summary-data</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 24/02/2015 17:58:08 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	372 label Biography information for Austin Mitchell

178826

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Eurostar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the number of employees at Eurostar International Limited who receive more than 50 days' paid holiday per year.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	224040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>Eurostar is run on a standalone commercial basis, as a result my department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 24/02/2015 17:35:48 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

178081

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Compulsory Purchase
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his speech to the Royal Economic Society on 14 January 2015, what steps his Department will take to engage with (a) the Country Landowners Association and (b) other rural organisations on the reforms to compulsory purchase proposed in that speech.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	223646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>I thank the Honourable Member for Chesham and Amersham for tabling this question.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In his speech to the Royal Economic Society last month, the Chancellor set out the Government’s commitment to reforming the Compulsory Purchase Regime and making it clearer, faster and fairer for both affected landowners and developers alike.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At Budget, the department for Communities and Local Government and HM Treasury will jointly consult as a way to make compensation, interest payments and the Compulsory Purchase process fairer, more flexible and to encourage development. As part of this consultation we will work with rural organisations such as the Country Landowners Association.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 10/02/2015 16:05:58 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

177078

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Theatre: Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 1.201 in the Autumn Statement 2014, how the £78 million allocated to The Factory Manchester will be spent; and from which departmental budget that funding will come.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	222979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>The £78m exchequer funding announced for The Factory Manchester at the 2014 Autumn Statement will be spent on the construction of a new theatre and exhibition space in Manchester.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Final funding arrangements will be determined once delivery plans have been finalised.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 11/02/2015 16:59:13 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant