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date	25/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Beverage Containers: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the report of the Environment Audit Committee, Disposable packing: coffee cups, published on 19 December 2017, HC 657, what steps he is taking to implement the Committee's recommendation to introduce a levy on disposable coffee cups.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	183830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The government recognises the problems caused by disposable cups, which are difficult to recycle and often littered. The government’s view is that a levy on all cups would not at this time be effective in encouraging widespread reuse.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses are already taking steps to limit their environmental impact, but the government expects industry to go further, and we will return to the issue if sufficient progress is not made.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, we will look in the Resources and Waste Strategy at the best way to tackle the environmental impact of cups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 31/10/2018 16:23:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

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date	03/09/2018
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, what the total cost to the public purse of his Department’s work preparing for the UK to leave the EU has been since 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	168902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury has allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the Devolved Administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This breaks down as:</p><p> </p><p>- £412m of additional funding over the spending review period for the Department for Exiting the European Union, Department for International Trade and the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office at Autumn Statement 2016.</p><p> </p><p>- £286m of additional funding for 17/18 (a full breakdown of which can be found in Supplementary Estimates 17/18).</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/679738/PU2137_Supplementary_estimates_web.pdf.</p><p> </p><p>- Over £1.5bn of additional funding for 18/19. A full breakdown of which can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March (https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/)</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2018 16:04:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake