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794597

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Unionlearn
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Autumn Budget 2017, paragraph 4.23, how much financial support will be provided to Unionlearn in the next two years.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	115570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>As announced in the Autumn Budget, the government will provide £8.5 million over the next two years to support Unionlearn. This additional funding will bring the total government investment in Unionlearn to £12 million per year for the next two years.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 28/11/2017 12:03:16 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

793989

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families use a tax-free childcare account for a disabled child.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	115078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>There are currently 1,187 live Tax-Free Childcare accounts for disabled children.</p><p> </p><p>The revised spending for Tax-Free Childcare was published in the Office for Budget Responsibility: Economic and fiscal outlook published on November 2017. This can be found at <a href="http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.org.uk/Nov2017EFOwebversion-2.pdf" target="_blank">http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.org.uk/Nov2017EFOwebversion-2.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 115080 question first answered 27/11/2017 15:05:32 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

793991

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the savings his Department will accrue in the 2017-18 financial year due to the delayed roll-out of tax-free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	115080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>There are currently 1,187 live Tax-Free Childcare accounts for disabled children.</p><p> </p><p>The revised spending for Tax-Free Childcare was published in the Office for Budget Responsibility: Economic and fiscal outlook published on November 2017. This can be found at <a href="http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.org.uk/Nov2017EFOwebversion-2.pdf" target="_blank">http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.org.uk/Nov2017EFOwebversion-2.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 115078 question first answered 27/11/2017 15:05:32 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

794074

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2017, if he will publish the assessment on which his plan to set aside a further £3 billion to prepare for the UK's exit from the EU is based.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	115162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The Treasury and DExEU have been engaged with departments on their critical paths and the additional funding from the Reserve in 18/19 and 19/20 is being set aside to ensure funding is available as required for day 1 readiness.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 27/11/2017 14:56:59 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

794076

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a breakdown of the £700 million of transfers to Departments to prepare for the UK leaving the EU for each calendar month to date.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	115164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The £700m of additional funding already allocated includes £412m of additional funding that DIT, FCO and DExEU received over the parliament that was set out at Autumn Statement 2016. In addition, the Treasury has also allocated £250m from the Reserve to a number of departments in 17/18. Departmental allocations from the 17/18 Reserve will be set out at Supplementary Estimates, in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 27/11/2017 14:58:25 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

794080

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Departments requested additional funding to prepare for the UK leaving the EU before the Autumn Budget 2017.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	115168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>All departments are planning for a number of EU Exit scenarios to make sure we are ready on Day 1. £412m of additional funding was allocated to DIT, FCO and DExEU over the parliament as was set out at Autumn Statement 2016. Over £250m of additional funding has been approved across a number of departments in 2017/18 to prepare for Brexit. Additional funding received from the Reserve for 2017/18 will be set out at Supplementary Estimates in the usual way. Departments are also reprioritising resources to focus on this government priority.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 27/11/2017 14:59:54 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

794116

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish his assessment of how much of the (a) £100 million spent to date and (b) additional £3 billion of funding for preparations for the UK leaving the EU announced in Autumn Budget 2017 is required for contingencies in the event of (i) no deal being reached and (ii) a deal being reached.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	115204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>HMG is preparing for a range of scenarios, as is the responsible thing to do. At Autumn Statement 2016, HMT announced £412m of additional funding over the parliament for DExEU, DIT and the FCO to allow essential preparations to begin. HMT has also allocated over £250m of additional funding to departments in 17/18.</p><p> </p><p>On top of this, £3bn of additional funding was announced by the Chancellor at the Autumn Budget - £1.5 billion of additional funding in each of 2018-19 and 2019-20. The Treasury will be working with departments ahead of allocating additional funding to ensure plans are designed to flexibly handle multiple scenarios wherever possible.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 27/11/2017 15:09:12 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

794117

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the provisional allocations of funding, broken down by Department, which comprise the additional £1.5billion allocated for preparations for the UK leaving the EU in 2018-19 announced in the Autumn Budget 2017.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	115205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The additional funding in 18/19 has been set aside in the Reserve to ensure funding is available as required. HMT will work with departments and DExEU over the coming weeks to refine estimates of departmental requirements for 18/19 and will allocate funding in early 2018. Departmental allocations from the Reserve will be set out at Supplementary Estimates in the relevant year, as is usual.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 27/11/2017 15:01:33 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

790876

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many parents in each local authority area are eligible for tax-free childcare; and how many parents have signed up to the childcare choices website to access that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	113523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to my response to my response to a Parliamentary Question (106916) on 16 October, which gives the number of live Tax-Free Childcare accounts.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the estimated number of families with a youngest child aged under 7, 8, 9, and 10-11 who will be eligible for Tax-Free Childcare in 2018/19. However, not all of these families will use formal childcare or will be better off on Tax-Free Childcare and take-up is therefore expected to be lower.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age of youngest child</p></td><td><p>Families eligible for TFC</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under 7</p></td><td><p>1,580,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>160,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>170,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>140,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-11</p></td><td><p>200,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>On 15 November the government announced that Tax-Free childcare will be fully rolled out to all eligible parents by the end of March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Eligibility projections for Tax-Free Childcare cannot be broken down by Local Authority.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 113524 113657 question first answered 21/11/2017 15:26:12 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

790877

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many of the 275,000 parents who have an open childcare account are eligible for tax-free childcare.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	113524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to my response to my response to a Parliamentary Question (106916) on 16 October, which gives the number of live Tax-Free Childcare accounts.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the estimated number of families with a youngest child aged under 7, 8, 9, and 10-11 who will be eligible for Tax-Free Childcare in 2018/19. However, not all of these families will use formal childcare or will be better off on Tax-Free Childcare and take-up is therefore expected to be lower.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age of youngest child</p></td><td><p>Families eligible for TFC</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under 7</p></td><td><p>1,580,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>160,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>170,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>140,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-11</p></td><td><p>200,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>On 15 November the government announced that Tax-Free childcare will be fully rolled out to all eligible parents by the end of March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Eligibility projections for Tax-Free Childcare cannot be broken down by Local Authority.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 113523 113657 question first answered 21/11/2017 15:26:12 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell