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1077225

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Bodies: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Scottish public bodies have made representations to his Department on direct financial support to prepare for the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to each of those public bodies.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	225481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>Since the referendum, the Government has allocated more than £4.3 billion to help departments and the devolved administrations prepare for EU Exit. This includes £2 billion announced prior to the Christmas recess for core EU Exit preparations in 2019-20, for both deal and no deal scenarios.</p><p> </p><p>It is for departments and the Scottish Government to decide how to allocate this funding to Scottish public bodies operating in reserved and devolved areas respectively. The Scottish Government has been allocated almost £100m of additional EU Exit funding, comprising £54.7m for 2019-20, £37.3m in 2018-19 and £6.6m in 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 28/02/2019 13:25:49 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1077241

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Connect Airways: Flybe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the takeover of Flybe by the Connect Airways consortium.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	225554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text Aviation is crucial to our economy and the UK’s aviation sector continues to grow. The takeover of Flybe is a commercial matter. The Department for Transport continues to monitor the situation given the importance of regional connectivity to local economies. The Chancellor has not received written representations from investors on the takeover or the purchasing of the working assets of Flybe and in line with the practice of successive administrations, details of ministerial discussions are not normally disclosed. answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 225555 225558 225559 question first answered 28/02/2019 17:02:35 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1077243

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Connect Airways: Flybe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received from investors on the takeover of Flybe by the Connect Airways consortium.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	225555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text Aviation is crucial to our economy and the UK’s aviation sector continues to grow. The takeover of Flybe is a commercial matter. The Department for Transport continues to monitor the situation given the importance of regional connectivity to local economies. The Chancellor has not received written representations from investors on the takeover or the purchasing of the working assets of Flybe and in line with the practice of successive administrations, details of ministerial discussions are not normally disclosed. answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 225554 225558 225559 question first answered 28/02/2019 17:02:35 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1077246

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Connect Airways: Flybe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the purchasing of Flybe working assets by the Connect Airways consortium.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	225558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text Aviation is crucial to our economy and the UK’s aviation sector continues to grow. The takeover of Flybe is a commercial matter. The Department for Transport continues to monitor the situation given the importance of regional connectivity to local economies. The Chancellor has not received written representations from investors on the takeover or the purchasing of the working assets of Flybe and in line with the practice of successive administrations, details of ministerial discussions are not normally disclosed. answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 225554 225555 225559 question first answered 28/02/2019 17:02:35 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1077247

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Connect Airways: Flybe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received from investors on the purchasing of Flybe working assets by the Connect Airways consortium.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	225559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text Aviation is crucial to our economy and the UK’s aviation sector continues to grow. The takeover of Flybe is a commercial matter. The Department for Transport continues to monitor the situation given the importance of regional connectivity to local economies. The Chancellor has not received written representations from investors on the takeover or the purchasing of the working assets of Flybe and in line with the practice of successive administrations, details of ministerial discussions are not normally disclosed. answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 225554 225555 225558 question first answered 28/02/2019 17:02:35 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1064759

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Homelessness: Finance
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 classify as a priority in the next Spending Review, funding to reduce rough sleeping and homelessness.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	224477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to tackling homelessness and rough sleeping. We have provided £1.2bn of funding to address homelessness. In August, we announced a £100m Rough Sleeping Strategy to begin progress to meet the commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2022, and eliminate it by 2027.</p><p> </p><p>All long-term decisions on public spending will be taken at the Spending Review this year, when the Chancellor will set out his approach for the future.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 26/02/2019 12:02:16 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1064317

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Productivity: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Office for National Statistics publication, Labour productivity, UK: July to September 2018, published on 9 January 2019 whether the next Spending Review will allocate funding to tackle the effect of poor health outcomes in the North of England on that region’s levels of productivity.
tabling member constituency	Knowsley
tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
uin	223775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>The ONS published the latest estimates of sub-national productivity on 6 February 2019. The data shows that productivity has increased in all the regions in the North of England during 2017 and since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>All regions in the North of England have seen faster nominal productivity growth than London and the South of England since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS is the government’s number one spending priority and that is why we have committed to a historic settlement that provides a cash increase of £33.9bn a year by 2023-24. This takes the NHS budget from £114.6bn in 2018-19 to £148.5bn in 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets the vision for the NHS over the coming years including what action the NHS plans to take on health inequalities. NHS England has committed to ensuring a higher share of funding goes towards geographies with high health inequalities. This funding is estimated to be worth over £1 billion by 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 27/02/2019 14:54:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1064359

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how he plans to use the next Spending Review to reduce economic inequalities between the north and south of England.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	223833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>Since 2010, over 60% of jobs have been created outside of London and the South East, and all regions of the North of England have seen faster nominal productivity growth over that time period than London and the South East. The Government is continuing to support the Northern Powerhouse, for example, the £2.5bn Transforming Cities Fund as well as Devolution deals for Manchester, Liverpool and North of Tyne. We will continue to support this growth through the Spending Review later this year and other policies such as a refreshed Northern Powerhouse Strategy.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 27/02/2019 14:33:19 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1064360

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Health: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the next Spending Review will include plans to review the level of investment in health research received by northern institutions.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	223834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>The Spending Review will consider all public investments in the round.</p>Research funding, including Medical Research Council funding, is allocated following nation-wide competitive and academic peer review processes, where scientific excellence is the core assessment criteria.<p> </p><p>Since 2016, Government has committed an additional £7bn for R&amp;D by 2021-22 – the largest increase for 40 years, which supports the government target of increasing economy-wide R&amp;D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. To support innovation-led growth across the whole of the UK, Autumn Budget 2018 backed local initiatives to nurture R&amp;D strengths by doubling the Strength in Places Fund to £235m.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 27/02/2019 08:28:25 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1063997

registered interest
date	19/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 February 2019 to Question 220289, Children: Maintenance, if she will provide further information on the overall care test used to determine entitlement to child benefit.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	223194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>Child Benefit is payable where a claimant is responsible for a child under the age of 16, or a qualifying young person up to the age of 20 in full-time non-advanced education or approved training. A person is treated as being responsible for a child in any week where:</p><p>(i) they have the child living with them in that week; or</p><p>(ii) they are contributing to the upkeep of the child at a weekly rate not less than the amount of Child Benefit payable for that week.</p><p> </p><p>Only one person can get Child Benefit in respect of a child. In cases of shared care, where more than one person meets the entitlement criteria and makes a claim for Child Benefit, priority rules apply. These rules are set out in the Child Benefit Technical Manual at the following link.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/child-benefit-technical-manual/cbtm08001" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/child-benefit-technical-manual/cbtm08001</a></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 26/02/2019 12:04:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley