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1042395

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Football Pools: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on the (a) finances and (b) usage of the football pools of the reduction in the pools duty from 15 per cent to one per cent.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	209396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>Pool Betting Duty raises around £4m in revenue for the Exchequer per year. Cutting Pool Betting Duty to 1% could pose a risk to the public finances from a reduction in General Betting Duty revenue as bookmakers would have an incentive to switch their products from fixed odds bets to pools bets.</p><p> </p><p>It is unlikely to increase usage of the football pools which has been in long term decline due to the poplularity of other gambling products.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/01/2019 16:33:19 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1042396

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Football Pools: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received on reducing the Pools Duty to 10 per cent, and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	209397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>All taxes are kept under review as part of the normal Budget process. As part of this stakeholders can make representations, which form part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s considerations.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/01/2019 16:30:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1042397

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Football Pools: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department have made an assessment of the potential effect on the betting industry of the effect of reducing the Pools Duty to 10 per cent; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	209398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>Pool Betting Duty raises around £4m in revenue for the Exchequer per annum. Reducing it to 10% is likely to have a negligible effect on the betting industry, but could put revenue at risk particularly through incentivising switching of products from other forms of bets to pooled bets.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/01/2019 15:27:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1041387

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coinage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent on designing the commemorative 50p coin to mark the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	208268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The cost of designing coins is met by the Royal Mint out of its own revenues. This is expected to be met by the revenues raised from the coin’s sale.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/01/2019 13:55:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

1041389

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coinage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Royal Mint have for the commemorative 50p coin to mark the UK leaving the EU in the event that the date of the UK leaving the EU is postponed.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	208269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The government’s policy is for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union on 29 March 2019. The commemorative 50p to mark the UK leaving the European Union will become available following the UK’s departure.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/01/2019 14:00:18 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

1039589

registered interest
date	11/01/2019
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, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January to Question 205796 on Treasury: Brexit, when his Department plans to publish the data transparency releases referred to in that answer.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	207545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>All spending over £25,000 is published in line with current guidance on a monthly basis.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/01/2019 16:37:03 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1038965

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coinage: British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's announcement entitled New pound coin goes global with rollout to British overseas nations, published on 6 January 2019, if he will list which authority in each of the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies that will be responsible for commissioning new £1 coins.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	207221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to our Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies around the globe. Enabling them to design and mint their own versions of the iconic new £1 coin is a demonstration of that commitment.</p><p>Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies will now be able to apply to the Royal Mint for permission to produce their own 12-sided pound coins. It is for the coin issuing authority in each of the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies to seek permission, if they wish to do so.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/01/2019 14:14:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1038988

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money has been raised for the public purse from vehicle excise duties from the Greater London Authority area in each year for which information is available; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of devolving the proceeds of vehicle excise duties raised in the Greater London Authority area to London local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Hornchurch and Upminster
tabling member printed	Julia Lopez
uin	207290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>In 2017-18, Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) raised a total of around £6.2 billion in revenue.</p><p> </p><p>VED is collected nationwide and since it is tied to where individuals choose to register their vehicles, there is no official methodology to identify the VED collected in any particular region. As such, VED does not lend itself to devolution as vehicle registrations do not necessarily correlate with either emissions or vehicle use<em>.</em></p><p> </p><p>VED revenues will be hypothecated to the National Roads Fund (NRF) in England from 2020-21. The NRF will provide certainty for roads investment, including in London.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/01/2019 14:06:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez

1038449

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department (a) is taking to implement track and trace in plain packaging and (b) plans to take to ensure track and trace provides maximum (i) traceability and (ii) revenue collection.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	206871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) has conducted a competitive tendering exercise to appoint an independent ID issuer who will be responsible for the issue of unique tracking codes and operator identifiers. The tender documentation specified that bids must comply with the EU Tobacco Products Directive and Implementing Regulations. This will enable traceability from the point of manufacture or importation to the first retail outlet, and ensures independence from the tobacco industry. Details of the successful bidder will be announced as soon as the contractual arrangements are finalised.</p><p> </p><p>The track and trace system is not a revenue collection system, however when used alongside existing controls it will help enforcement officers identify non duty paid tobacco products and take action against those responsible.</p><p> </p><p>The implementing legislation for the EU Directive specifies strict and comprehensive criteria by which independence from the tobacco industry is determined. This criteria has been, and will continue to be met at all times. While HMRC has no plans to publish representations made by the tobacco industry as they may contain taxpayer or commercially sensitive information, details of meetings between HMRC officials and the tobacco industry are published on gov.uk. This includes meetings to discuss points of detail on the track and trace system, such as the specific placement of the unique ID codes on the packs.</p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-revenue-customs-officials-meetings-with-tobacco-stakeholders" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-revenue-customs-officials-meetings-with-tobacco-stakeholders</a> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 206872 question first answered 14/01/2019 10:32:49 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1038451

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2018 to Question 176456 on Tobacco: Smuggling, if his Department will publish the details of representations made by the tobacco industry on the issue of the implementation of the tobacco track and trace system.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	206872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) has conducted a competitive tendering exercise to appoint an independent ID issuer who will be responsible for the issue of unique tracking codes and operator identifiers. The tender documentation specified that bids must comply with the EU Tobacco Products Directive and Implementing Regulations. This will enable traceability from the point of manufacture or importation to the first retail outlet, and ensures independence from the tobacco industry. Details of the successful bidder will be announced as soon as the contractual arrangements are finalised.</p><p> </p><p>The track and trace system is not a revenue collection system, however when used alongside existing controls it will help enforcement officers identify non duty paid tobacco products and take action against those responsible.</p><p> </p><p>The implementing legislation for the EU Directive specifies strict and comprehensive criteria by which independence from the tobacco industry is determined. This criteria has been, and will continue to be met at all times. While HMRC has no plans to publish representations made by the tobacco industry as they may contain taxpayer or commercially sensitive information, details of meetings between HMRC officials and the tobacco industry are published on gov.uk. This includes meetings to discuss points of detail on the track and trace system, such as the specific placement of the unique ID codes on the packs.</p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-revenue-customs-officials-meetings-with-tobacco-stakeholders" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-revenue-customs-officials-meetings-with-tobacco-stakeholders</a> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 206871 question first answered 14/01/2019 10:32:49 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day