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1506567

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Funerals: VAT
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 potential merits of making costs associated with the organisation of remembrance services exempt from VAT.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	51458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>VAT has been designed as a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to the vast majority of goods and services.</p><p> </p><p>It would be administratively challenging for suppliers to identify and apply a different VAT treatment to supplies based on the type of event and for HMRC to ensure that the VAT treatment and VAT accounting is applied correctly throughout the supply chain. Businesses and organisations in the supply chain are normally able to recover VAT on costs. However, they are unable to recover the VAT on costs used in making exempt or out of scope supplies.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all taxes under review and welcomes representations to help inform future decisions on tax policy, as part of the tax policy making cycle and Budget process.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 23/09/2022 13:26:09 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1506697

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Guaranteed Minimum Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many pensioners affected by the Guaranteed Minimum Pension reconciliation exercise had their pensions (a) reduced and (b) increased; and what was the (a) highest loss, (b) lowest loss and (c) average loss of pension for those pensioners.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	51969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text This question is being answered assuming the Hon. Member for Angus is referring to the Scheme Reconciliation Service that ended in 2021 and that the pension information requested relates to occupational pensions. HMRC are unable to provide the data requested. answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 23/09/2022 16:01:25 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1506304

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fuels: VAT Zero Rating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to hold discussions with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) stakeholders on the potential merits of zero-rating VAT on domestic fuel.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	49632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government has announced a new 'Energy Price Guarantee' to limit the price suppliers can charge customers for units of gas and electricity. This will save the average household £1,000 a year based on current energy prices from October.</p><p>In recognition of the fact that families should not have to bear all of the VAT costs they incur to meet their needs, domestic fuels such as gas, electricity, and heating oil are already subject to the reduced rate of VAT at 5 per cent.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 22/09/2022 08:05:49 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1506306

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is taking steps to reduce HM Revenue and Customs paperwork for alcohol exporters.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	49633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2022 answer text I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on 6 July 2022 – <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-06-28/26743" target="_blank">UIN26743</a>. answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 14/09/2022 10:03:06 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1506056

registered interest
date	07/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that business rates bills do not cause high street shops in (a) Battersea and (b) the rest of the UK to close.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	49262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2022 answer text <p>The most recent review of business rates concluded at Autumn Budget 2021. The review reaffirmed the importance of business rates for raising revenue for essential local services and announced a £7 billion package of measures to support business over the next 5 years.</p><p> </p><p>This includes a freeze to the business rates multiplier in 2022-23, which will support all ratepayers, large and small, meaning bills are 3 per cent lower than without the freeze. The Government has also introduced a new temporary relief for retail, hospitality, and leisure in 2022-23, worth almost £1.7 billion to the sector. These measures will support the businesses that make our high streets and town centres successful.</p><p> </p><p>As with all taxes, HM Treasury keeps business rates under review.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller grouped question UIN 49263 49266 question first answered 14/09/2022 09:53:54 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1506057

registered interest
date	07/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates: Battersea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to support local businesses in Battersea through reforming the business rates system.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	49263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2022 answer text <p>The most recent review of business rates concluded at Autumn Budget 2021. The review reaffirmed the importance of business rates for raising revenue for essential local services and announced a £7 billion package of measures to support business over the next 5 years.</p><p> </p><p>This includes a freeze to the business rates multiplier in 2022-23, which will support all ratepayers, large and small, meaning bills are 3 per cent lower than without the freeze. The Government has also introduced a new temporary relief for retail, hospitality, and leisure in 2022-23, worth almost £1.7 billion to the sector. These measures will support the businesses that make our high streets and town centres successful.</p><p> </p><p>As with all taxes, HM Treasury keeps business rates under review.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller grouped question UIN 49262 49266 question first answered 14/09/2022 09:53:54 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1506060

registered interest
date	07/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with relevant stakeholders on reducing the headline rate of business rates.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	49266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2022 answer text <p>The most recent review of business rates concluded at Autumn Budget 2021. The review reaffirmed the importance of business rates for raising revenue for essential local services and announced a £7 billion package of measures to support business over the next 5 years.</p><p> </p><p>This includes a freeze to the business rates multiplier in 2022-23, which will support all ratepayers, large and small, meaning bills are 3 per cent lower than without the freeze. The Government has also introduced a new temporary relief for retail, hospitality, and leisure in 2022-23, worth almost £1.7 billion to the sector. These measures will support the businesses that make our high streets and town centres successful.</p><p> </p><p>As with all taxes, HM Treasury keeps business rates under review.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller grouped question UIN 49262 49263 question first answered 14/09/2022 09:53:54 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1505273

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Off-payroll Working
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 impact of the roll-out of the IR35 off-payroll rules on the private sector.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	48342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2022 answer text <p>HMRC has commissioned external research into the short-term effects of the April 2021 off-payroll working rules reform in the private and voluntary sectors, and fieldwork for this research has been undertaken.</p><p>The research will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 14/09/2022 09:40:37 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1505511

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Finance and Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total (a) annual budget and (b) full time equivalent workforce allocated to HMRC's National Minimum Wage teams was in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	48360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2022 answer text <p>HMRC’s National Minimum Wage (NMW) compliance work is funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, who are responsible for NMW legislation and policy. The funding for HMRC’s work on NMW has increased from £13.2 million in 2015-16, to £26.4 million in 2021-22.</p><p> </p><p>The following table provides a yearly breakdown of the NMW budget and Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff numbers from 2015-16 up to 2021-22.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Budget</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>£13.2 million</p></td><td><p>251</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>£20 million</p></td><td><p>352</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-2018</p></td><td><p>25.3 million</p></td><td><p>413</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-2019</p></td><td><p>25.2 million</p></td><td><p>429</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-2020</p></td><td><p>26.3 million</p></td><td><p>442</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-2021</p></td><td><p>26.4 million</p></td><td><p>420</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-2022</p></td><td><p>26.4 million</p></td><td><p>390</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To note, there are also additional staff across HMRC who contribute to enforcing the NMW including lawyers, technical advisers, and those specialising in criminal investigations, who have not been included in the FTE figures provided in the table.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 14/09/2022 10:00:31 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1505513

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Non-payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many reports from (a) employees and (b) third parties involving suspected non-compliance of employers with the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and related legislation were received by HMRC in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	48361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2022 answer text <p>HMRC considers all complaints from workers, conducts a program of proactive compliance activities, and delivers a program of educational activities to support employers to get it right.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone not being paid what they are entitled to can complain online at: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fminimum-wage-complaint&amp;data=04%7C01%7Ccraig.bullimore%40hmrc.gov.uk%7C66bd51b4f8784ed2ab9808d95becba22%7Cac52f73cfd1a4a9a8e7a4a248f3139e1%7C0%7C0%7C637641894549065236%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=7QBjBgISRvVk1WxxiZ%2FeP%2F%2BxDF%2FWxvEUbleRXBCrJsY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/minimum-wage-complaint</a> or can contact the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service on 0300 123 1100. HMRC will not tell an employer who complained without the person’s consent.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Worker complaints</p></td><td><p>Third party information</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1,516</p></td><td><p>418</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2,573</p></td><td><p>789</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>6,027</p></td><td><p>2,154</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>4,924</p></td><td><p>2,351</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>3,332</p></td><td><p>2,413</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2,771</p></td><td><p>2,286</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>3,310</p></td><td><p>2,944</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 14/09/2022 09:42:33 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock