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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

1037049

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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, what the cost to the public purse was of his Department's public information campaign on the potential effect on the UK of leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	205796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government has a duty to inform citizens and businesses about how leaving the EU might affect them, and to advise on the steps they may need to take to prepare for EU Exit.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has developed a cross-departmental public information campaign to help achieve this. Over the coming weeks, we will be using a range of channels to direct UK citizens, businesses, EU citizens living in the UK and UK nationals living in the EU to a dedicated area on GOV.UK at Gov.uk/euexit.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the costs associated with this campaign will be released in due course as part of normal transparency releases.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/01/2019 16:56:16 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1035035

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-payroll staff are employed in (a) his Department and (b) HMRC.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	205426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>From the information held by HMT on our financial system we have identified 9 non-payroll staff members, as at 31<sup>st</sup> December 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The data for HMRC as at 30 November 2018, identifies 339 non pay-roll staff.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/01/2019 10:36:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1035040

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Royal Mint: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff in the Royal Mint.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	205084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The current employees at The Royal Mint are:</p><p>(a) (i) Payroll number of staff of 785</p><p>(ii) Payroll full-time equivalent staff of 763</p><p> </p><p>(b) (i) Non-payroll (agency) number of staff of 237</p><p>(ii) Non-payroll (agency) full-time equivalent staff of 237</p><p> </p><p>The Mint is a publicly-owned company and its staff costs are funded out of its own revenues. The most recent forecasts of staff costs including associated tax and pensions costs for the year ending 31 March 2019 are:</p><p> </p><ol><li><p>Payroll costs of £36.7million</p></li><li><p>Non-payroll (agency) costs of £4.5million.</p></li></ol> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 205091 question first answered 11/01/2019 10:17:49 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1035049

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Royal Mint: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) staff and (b) full-time equivalent staff are employed in (i) payroll and (ii) non-payroll roles in the Royal Mint.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	205091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The current employees at The Royal Mint are:</p><p>(a) (i) Payroll number of staff of 785</p><p>(ii) Payroll full-time equivalent staff of 763</p><p> </p><p>(b) (i) Non-payroll (agency) number of staff of 237</p><p>(ii) Non-payroll (agency) full-time equivalent staff of 237</p><p> </p><p>The Mint is a publicly-owned company and its staff costs are funded out of its own revenues. The most recent forecasts of staff costs including associated tax and pensions costs for the year ending 31 March 2019 are:</p><p> </p><ol><li><p>Payroll costs of £36.7million</p></li><li><p>Non-payroll (agency) costs of £4.5million.</p></li></ol> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 205084 question first answered 11/01/2019 10:17:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1035050

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff in his private office.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	205092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s private office cost for payroll staff between April and November 2018 was £461,020.</p><p> </p><p>There was no cost for non-payroll staff.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/01/2019 10:14:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1029476

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Government Controlled Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, where his Department archives information on wholly owned government companies; and whether such information is available for public review.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	204590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>HMT organises its records in such a way that does not hold a collection or archive of information on wholly owned government companies.</p><p>The selection of records in the HM Treasury archive is based on its core activities of government economic policy and control of public expenditure that are of cultural and historical value.</p><p> </p><p>The HM Treasury archive collection is available for public viewing via The National Archives (TNA) website.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/01/2019 10:39:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1029477

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	International Military Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place a copy of Financial relationships with International Military Services Ltd (IMS) 1981-1984 [T 458/55], currently withheld from the National Archives, in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	204591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>We have retained the documents under section 3(4) of the Public Records Act 1958 pending security clearance from relevant Government departments. Once we are satisfied that there are no grounds for retaining the documents, these will be deposited in the National Archives in accordance with the Public Records Act 1958.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/01/2019 10:41:36 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1028547

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
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, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to his Department for financial year 2018-19 for planning for the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and how much of that funding has been spent.
tabling member constituency	Tatton
tabling member printed	Esther McVey
uin	203877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury has already allocated over £4.2 billion of additional funding to departments and the devolved administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This includes the £1.5 billion of additional funding HM Treasury announced at Autumn Budget 2017 for 2018/19, including £24.8m and £260m for the Chancellor’s HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs respectively, to enable them to prepare for EU Exit effectively in any scenario.</p><p> </p><p>A full breakdown of how this was allocated to departments can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/</a>) This money will be paid out in Supplementary Estimates 18/19 later this financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure on EU Exit preparation in 2018-19 will be detailed in departments Annual Report and Accounts in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/01/2019 13:17:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey