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1138648

registered interest
date	12/07/2019
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 people are employed (a) full time and (b) part-time by the Royal Mint.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	276575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2019 answer text <p>The Royal Mint currently employs 726 full-time employees, and 48 part-time employees.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/07/2019 11:17:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1136977

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Royal Mint: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many non-British employees are employed (a) full time and (b) part-time by the Royal Mint.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	273453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The Royal Mint currently employs 9 non-British full-time employees, and 1 non-British part-time employee.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/07/2019 09:59:09 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1134150

registered interest
date	24/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Soft Drinks: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the projected revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry levy is for financial year 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	268572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The current forecast for the Soft Drinks Industry Levy is published in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s March 2019 Economic and Fiscal Outlook. The 2019-20 figure is currently estimated at £344m. The publication tables can be found on the OBR’s website: <a href="https://cdn.obr.uk/Fiscal_charts_and_tables_March_2019.xlsx" target="_blank">https://cdn.obr.uk/Fiscal_charts_and_tables_March_2019.xlsx</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 02/07/2019 13:22:14 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020236

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government has established a decommissioning fund to ensure funding for the transferable tax history policy.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199458 199459 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020237

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the costs of the transferable tax history policy in the ten years after April 2024.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199459 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020238

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Part 2, paragraph 5d of Schedule 14 on Clause 36 of the Finance Bill 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential of the decommissioning costs doubling over the life-cycle of transferable tax history.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199458 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020239

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	North Sea Oil: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what sums the Government (a) received in tax revenues from North Sea oil production and (b) paid out in decommissioning-related tax breaks in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199458 199459 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1019927

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of Transferable Tax History on the incentives for buying companies to increase oil and gas production and generate further revenues.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	198899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government, with technical advice from the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) and representations from the industry via the trade body Oil and Gas UK, assesses that there will be instances when companies hoping to purchase mature fields will be in a position to extract more value from the field through investment than their current owner.</p><p> </p><p>However, there is a barrier to these deals taking place due to the uncertainty around whether the buyer will obtain equivalent decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>Transferable Tax History (TTH) overcomes this uncertainty, enabling companies to complete asset deals on mature fields and allowing new investment to take place. Without TTH, transactions for mature assets are expected to be less common and the increased revenue from production is not realised.</p><p> </p><p>More details can be found in the published policy paper, <em>“Oil and gas taxation: transferable tax history and retention of decommissioning expenditure”</em>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/12/2018 08:50:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1019935

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the effect of trends in the level of oil prices on the cost to the public purse of the Transferable Tax History.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	198900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>Transferable tax history (TTH) is expected to increase tax receipts from the oil and gas sector by £65 million between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24. This is based on forecast oil and gas prices as set by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility.</p><p> </p><p>A higher oil price will encourage investment in oil and gas extraction, facilitating more transactions for oil and gas fields and increasing the use of the TTH mechanism. Therefore, TTH would help increase revenues from oil and gas through increased production.</p><p> </p><p>A lower oil price will reduce the incentive for investment and decrease the likelihood that mature oil and gas fields will be sold. In this scenario the yield from new investment as a result of TTH will be lower. However, a low oil price is unlikely to result in TTH having a negative impact on tax receipts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/12/2018 08:51:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1019939

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has put in place to maintain job security for workers on North Sea oil rigs when Transferable Tax History is implemented.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	198901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>Transferable tax history will encourage new investment into the North Sea and prolong the productive life of the basin. This will help protect the 280,000 jobs across the UK that are supported by the industry.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 198904 question first answered 14/12/2018 08:54:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis