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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

1064369

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	Private Rented Housing: Rents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the most recent calculations of average rents for two bedroom homes in each of the 152 Broad Rental Market Areas that have been used to calculate local rental market statistics, including the Local Housing Allowance.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	223843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>In February 2019, the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) published the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates that will go live from 1 April 2019. From April this year, VOA will also publish the full List of Rents which underlie LHA rates.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 04/03/2019 15:03:50 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

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

1061014

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Finance: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the 2014 Government report Scotland anaylsis: fiscal policy and sustainability, what the evidential basis was for the statement that each person in Scotland would be £1,400 better off each year if Scotland remained part of the UK, and what that figure has been for each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	221657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>In Scotland analysis: fiscal policy and sustainability (2014), HM Government projected that, as part of the UK, Scotland would be able to have lower tax or higher spending than under independence. This was estimated to be worth £1,400 per person in Scotland in each year from 2016-17 onwards.</p><p> </p><p>The methodology used to calculate this can be found in Annex A of Scotland analysis: fiscal policy and sustainability</p><p> </p><p>HM Government has not updated this analysis since the publication.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 19/02/2019 12:13:14 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1061094

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value of the Barnett consequentials are for (a) Small Sites Fund, (b) Housing Infrastructure Fund, (c) local authority Accelerated Construction Programme and (d) the Land Assembly Fund.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	221684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Barnett Formula is applied at departmental level at Spending Reviews and at programme level at fiscal events. The total spending on UK Government programmes is not therefore generally associated with specific Barnett consequentials.</p><p> </p><p>However, where changes in programme level funding have been announced at fiscal events since the 2015 Spending Review, HM Treasury’s Block Grant Transparency publication sets out the associated changes in the devolved administration block grants. This includes funding for the four programmes referred to in the question. The Block Grant Transparency publication can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/block-grant-transparency-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/block-grant-transparency-december-2018</a>.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/02/2019 15:36:10 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1060573

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) current and (b) projected cashflow is for the High Speed 2 project in the next (i) 12 months, (ii) five years and (iii) 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	220774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>High Speed 2’s (HS2) funding envelope is £55.7bn (in 2015 prices).</p><p> </p><p>At Spending Review 2015, HS2’s annual budgets were set for five years to 2020/21. In 2019/20 HS2’s budget is set at £4.694bn and in 2020/21 it is set at £4.647bn</p><p> </p><p>Future HS2 budgets will be set at the Spending Review later this year.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/02/2019 18:24:46 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1060666

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Government has made of the annual amount it is prepared to pay for each level of access to the EU single market.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	220738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Government’s analysis of the economic and fiscal impact of EU exit (below), the terms of any future financial contributions to the EU related to our future relationship will be a matter for negotiation. However, the Government has been clear on the areas where future spending may be incurred, should the UK and the EU agree. The Political Declaration, published on 25 November, sets out that the UK and EU will “make a fair and appropriate financial contribution” in return for <em>“participation in Union programmes… in areas such as science and innovation, youth, culture and education, overseas development and external action, defence capabilities, civil protection and space</em>.”</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/760484/28_November_EU_Exit_-_Long-term_economic_analysis__1_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/760484/28_November_EU_Exit_-_Long-term_economic_analysis__1_.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/02/2019 15:40:35 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1060720

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Working Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of the contract with Concentrix for its investigation into payments of Working Tax Credits; how many claimants were pursued as part of Concentrix’s contract; and how many of those investigations were successful.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	220756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>Full details on HMRC’s contract with Concentrix and details on how many investigations were undertaken and how many were successful are available publicly.</p><p> </p><p>On 17 January 2017 the National Audit Office published its ‘Investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix’. This can be found at</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/report/hmrcs-contract-with-concentrix/" target="_blank">https://www.nao.org.uk/report/hmrcs-contract-with-concentrix/</a></p><p> </p><p>On 4 April 2017 the Committee for Public Accounts published its report ‘HMRC’s contract with Concentrix’. This can be found at</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmpubacc/998/99802.htm" target="_blank">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmpubacc/998/99802.htm</a></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/02/2019 15:43:32 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew