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1023106

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Block Grant: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effect of recent budgetary decisions on the Scottish block grant.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
uin	908140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>At Budget we announced a £700m increase in the Scottish block grant for 19/20 because of the additional money we are spending across the country.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:36:20 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

1020747

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Training: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the UK spent as a proportion of GDP on in-work training for 2017-18; and how that figure compares to the average spends within the (a) G7 and (b) EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	199786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Employer Skills Survey 2017, published in August 2018, states that UK employer expenditure on training and development in 2017 was £44.2bn, which represented approximately 2.2% of GDP.</p><p> </p><p>The primary government support for in-work training is the Apprenticeship Programme, which is funded by a 0.5% levy on all UK businesses with a wage bill over £3m each year. In 2017/18, the levy raised around £2.6bn, which was made available to the Department for Education to fund apprenticeships and skills training in England, and the devolved administrations, who received their share of the levy in the normal way to spend on their priorities.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not collect or hold direct international comparisons for these statistics.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:35:29 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1020748

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the UK spent as a proportion of GDP on transport infrastructure in 2017-18; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the proportion of UK GDP spent on transport infrastructure compared with the average proportion spent by (a) the G7 and (b) the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	199787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>In 2017-18, the UK’s public sector expenditure was £20.5 billion on transport capital investment. This is roughly 1% of GDP – a 0.25 percentage point increase on 4 years ago.</p><p> </p><p>Reliable international comparisons for transport infrastructure spend are difficult due to data availability. Within the UK, the devolved administrations also have responsibilities for transport investment.</p><p> </p><p>However, this government is building on this investment with the £28.8 billion National Roads Fund announced at Budget to invest in English roads, £47.9 billion for the railway in England and Wales in Control Period 6 and undertaking one of the largest engineering projects in Europe – HS2.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:33:34 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1020215

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	Research: EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the funding made available to underwrite successful bids by UK organisations to (a) Horizon 2020 and (b) other competitive EU grant programmes is planned to be redistributed from existing UK research budgets in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	199420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The HMG guarantee covers successful competitive bids made before the UK leaves the EU, for the lifetime of the project. This guarantee was extended in July 2018 to cover all EU projects agreed before the end of 2020, where the UK will be eligible to participate as a third country. If the UK leaves the EU next year without reaching an overall withdrawal agreement, HM Treasury will make funding available to departments to cover projects under the guarantee, which includes Horizon 2020. This funding will be additional to existing departmental budgets. Relevant departments will then be responsible for allocating this funding to UK organisations.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:41:16 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1020395

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	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Departments will be in receipt of the additional £2 billion he announced for EU exit planning; how much each such Department will receive.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	199465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury is discussing EU Exit preparations for 2019/20 with departments and allocations will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/12/2018 11:44:46 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

1019818

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	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an estimate of the revenue that will accrue to the public purse from an age-related levy to pay for social care; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	198890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The revenue raised by any new tax or levy would depend on the way it is designed, including how the tax base is defined, how the tax is structured, and the rate or rates of taxation applied to the base. It would also depend on the economic circumstances at the time the tax or levy is introduced.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 10:42:43 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1019901

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	Network Rail: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Network Rail is entitled to carry over funds for each financial year in Control Period 6 between 2019 and 2024.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	198850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Given the size of its capital spending portfolio, Network Rail will be granted financial flexibilities over its spending which will allow it to move funds between financial years, to reflect the inherent volatility of capital spending. These flexibilities were set out in the Department for Transport’s response to the Office of Rail and Road’s second consultation on Periodic Review 18’s financial framework, published in June 2018, available at http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/27862/pr18-responses-to-second-consultation-on-the-financial-framework.pdf</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:39:15 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1019417

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money the Government has allocated to organisations and groups supporting LGBTQ+ rights in England since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	198218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The UK is recognized as a world leader on LGBT rights. Sexual orientation is one of the nine characteristics protected under the Equality Act 2010, for which the Government Equalities Office (GEO) within DfID is the Government’s lead department. A wide range of government departments have spending in support of LGBT rights. For instance, in 2015, GEO ran a £2.0 million pilot fund to test approaches to effectively tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying in schools. Following the evaluation of the pilot, the Government is now providing £4.0 million worth of funds from 2016 to 2020 to tackle HBT bullying in schools. However, the information requested on broader funding allocations is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/12/2018 14:43:22 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1019468

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Chief Scientific Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings he had with his Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between 1 September and 30 November 2018.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	198247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury is committed to ensuring that we access the very best scientific expertise. The Director for the Enterprise and Growth Unit, who is responsible for public science funding, acts as HM Treasury’s Chief Scientific Adviser and meets with the Chancellor of the Exchequer regularly. The Chancellor also met with the Government Chief Scientific Adviser and leaders of the National Academies on 26 November.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 06/12/2018 16:20:06 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1019485

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2018 to Question 194204 on Brexit and with reference to paragraph 4.111 of the Office for Budget Responsibility's Economic and Fiscal Outlook published in October 2018, what proportion of the £400 million underspend relates to the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	198347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>On 13 March 2018, the Treasury confirmed allocations of c.£1.6bn to departments. A full breakdown of the allocation can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on 13 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>.</p><p>The Economic and Fiscal Outlook is produced by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). As part of their fiscal forecast they take a judgement on how much departments will underspend on aggregate DEL spending. Further information on how the OBR reach their judgement is available at <a href="https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/departmental-expenditure-limits/" target="_blank">https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/departmental-expenditure-limits/</a>.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 06/12/2018 14:22:12 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook