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971550

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of the national living wage.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	906792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Those on the National Living Wage saw another inflation-beating pay rise with the 4.4% cash increase in April.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/09/2018 15:31:49 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

971551

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on NHS funding.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	906793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Answer I gave earlier to Question no. 3 – PQ UIN 906780</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/09/2018 15:35:40 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

971697

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many parents currently benefit from tax-free childcare; and how many parents were projected to benefit at this stage of the roll-out in the March 2014 forecast.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	173624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Over 92, 000 families have used their childcare accounts by early September 2018, to pay their childcare provider.</p><p> </p><p>The Tax-Free Childcare service opened in April 2017; 2014 forecasts are based on a different roll-out profile and so it is not robust to compare the two.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 17/09/2018 09:28:17 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

971724

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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 11 September 2018 to Question 171310 on Brexit, what proportion of that funding has been allocated to (a) the devolved administrations and (b) local government.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	173525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>A full breakdown of how the £1.5bn for 2018/19 was allocated can be found in my Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th 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>). This includes £73.9 million for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland due to Barnett consequentials. This money will be paid out in Supplementary Estimates 18/19 later this financial year. Departments will be invited to bid for 2019/20 EU Exit preparation funding later in the year. Details of timings and process will be set out in due course.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not provide funding to local authorities directly. Local authorities receive funding through MHCLG or from departments when their policy imposes costs on the local authority.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 09/10/2018 14:35:52 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

971751

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Food: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland administration on support for the food and drink manufacturing sector.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	173579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials have regular discussions with all of the devolved administrations on matters of importance to the economy across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The government recognises that the UK food and drink industry is a success story – generating £22bn exports in 2017. To build on this success, the government has set up the Food and Drink Sector Council, a partnership with industry to support productivity growth throughout the supply chain.</p><p> </p><p>To support the drinks industry, the government also froze beer duty at Autumn Budget 2017, meaning that the price of a pint of beer is 2p cheaper than it otherwise would have been.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 17/09/2018 09:25:03 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

971753

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Nurses: Northern Ireland
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 the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health in Northern Ireland on the provision of additional funding for NHS nurses in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	173580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Prime Minister announced additional funding of over £20 billion for the NHS starting in 2019-20. This is expected to be worth over £700m per annum for the Northern Ireland Executive by 2023-24. Final Barnett consequentials will be confirmed in due course as per the processes set out in the Statement of Funding Policy.</p><p> </p><p>The Financial Annex to the Confidence and Supply Agreement also committed £350m to the Northern Ireland Executive to manage immediate pressures in health and education, health transformation and mental health.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 17/09/2018 09:30:19 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

971446

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much by Department of the funding allocated to spending on preparations for the UK to leave the EU in the 2018-19 Main Estimates has been spent to date.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	172570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury has allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the devolved administrations for EU exit preparations so far. This includes the £1.5 billion of additional funding HM Treasury announced at Autumn Budget 2017 for 2018/19. A full breakdown of how this was allocated to departments can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March (https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/). This money will be paid out in Supplementary Estimates 18/19 later this financial year.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 13/09/2018 13:36:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

969029

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Childcare Vouchers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether an assessment has been made of the potential effect on family incomes of the closure to new entrants of the childcare voucher scheme.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	171382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 25 June 2018 to the Honourable Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (155282).</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that around 60,000 parents with qualifying childcare costs are eligible for TFC in Wales.</p><p> </p><p>To date about 4,000 applications have been received from Welsh parents for TFC and about 2,750 currently have a live account.</p><p> </p><p>A marketing campaign was launched on 10 September 2018, to increase awareness and take-up of Tax-Free Childcare.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 171388 question first answered 13/09/2018 15:19:31 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

969050

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Consumer Prices Index
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to use the Consumer Prices Index in preference to RPI as a measurement in all government transactions, negotiations and agreements.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	171374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The problems with RPI are well known. The Government has made progress in moving away from the use of RPI, for instance through bringing forward the planned switch in indexation of business rates from RPI to CPI by two years to April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>However, any further decisions to stop using RPI must also consider the fiscal costs associated. The Government has committed to reviewing the use of RPI for indirect taxes once its fiscal consolidation plans are complete.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 14/09/2018 10:03:57 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

969060

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households in each Welsh constituency are eligible for tax-free childcare; how many such households have (a) applied and (b) been accepted on to that scheme since its introduction; and how many such households have received tax-free childcare in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	171388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 25 June 2018 to the Honourable Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (155282).</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that around 60,000 parents with qualifying childcare costs are eligible for TFC in Wales.</p><p> </p><p>To date about 4,000 applications have been received from Welsh parents for TFC and about 2,750 currently have a live account.</p><p> </p><p>A marketing campaign was launched on 10 September 2018, to increase awareness and take-up of Tax-Free Childcare.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 171382 question first answered 13/09/2018 15:19:31 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake