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999629

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Infrastructure: Clacton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taking to invest in infrastructure in the Clacton region.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	187158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to making sure every area of the country has modern and efficient infrastructure. By the end of the parliament, public capital investment will reach levels not sustained in 40 years.</p><p> </p><p>Essex will receive £19 million for local roads maintenance in 2018/19, and DfT has provided £4 million to Essex County Council for development funding for improvements to the A120. In the last 5 years access to Superfast Broadband in Clacton has risen from 77% to 98%.</p><p>The Budget announced new programmes delivered at the local level to address barriers to productivity and increased funding for existing programmes, including an additional £420 million in 2018/19 to tackle potholes, repair damaged roads, and invest in keeping bridges open and safe. The £675 million Future High Streets Fund will support and fund local areas’ plans to make their high streets and town centres fit for the future, and the Budget also announced £150 million funding pot for a new competition for small improvements projects such as roundabouts.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/11/2018 17:47:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

999162

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universities: Enterprise Zones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, where the new University Enterprise Zones announced in Budget 2018 will be; and by what process that decision was reached.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
uin	186409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government announced £5m towards University Enterprise Zones in the Budget. The locations of these have not yet been decided. The process for awarding funding is currently being developed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/11/2018 17:48:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

999313

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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 his Department has spent on consultancy fees relating to the UK leaving the EU since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	186208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury does not hold this data in a way that would allow us to extract the information requested from existing accounting records or central searchable databases. Therefore to locate, retrieve and extract this data would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/11/2018 17:47:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

997626

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Railways: Dawlish
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 67 of the Budget 2018 Red Book, what funding he has allocated for resilience work in Dawlish.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	185809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>The government committed to £15 million of funding in November 2016. The essential improvement works are to begin in November of this year to strengthen the cliffs and protect the sea wall at Dawlish. Further plans for major improvements of the seawall at Dawlish will be published in the summer 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Overall, we are investing more than £400m in the rail network in the South West and will continue to work with Network Rail and the Peninsula Rail Task Force to explore the potential for longer-term improvements from summer 2019 onwards.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/11/2018 16:35:06 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

997707

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	185739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury currently has 23 apprentices employed in the core Department. There are an additional 9 staff employed as apprentices who are awaiting enrolment on their apprenticeship.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/11/2018 16:28:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

997736

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £8.75 per hour.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	185759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>No staff in HM Treasury are paid less than £8.75 per hour</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/11/2018 16:31:03 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

997776

registered interest
date	30/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department are paid less than £10.20 per hour.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	185779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>Less than five members of staff are paid less than £10.20 per hour in HM Treasury. These employees are based outside of London.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 07/11/2018 16:32:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

994511

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many citizens of non-UK EU countries work in (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	183820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.</p><p>Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 01/11/2018 14:37:32 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

994665

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Gaming Machines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the proposed time frame is to reduce the maximum stake on fixed odds betting terminals to £2.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	183992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>As announced at Budget the maximum stake on fixed odds betting terminals will be reduced to £2 from 1 October 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport intend to lay the draft regulations before Parliament, for the usual process of approval, in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 01/11/2018 14:41:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

994189

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much additional revenue has accrued to the public purse in taxation on (a) beer, (b) wine and (c) spirits since the introduction of the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	183445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme was introduced as one of a number of HMRC initiatives to tackle alcohol excise duty fraud. HMRC assesses all applications to ascertain whether the business and key persons within it are fit and proper for approval.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Approved businesses are monitored to ensure compliance with the scheme and to minimise the risk of illicit alcohol entering the wholesale market. To date HMRC has approved approximately 8000 businesses and over 800 applications have been refused.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC publishes alcohol receipts on a monthly basis on the UK Trade Info website. Multiple factors influence revenue receipts. Therefore, HMRC is unable to directly attribute any increases to introduction of the Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 01/11/2018 14:34:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris