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855497

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date	05/03/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of HMRC calculations of child poverty in working households; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	130804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>In the most recent publication “Personal tax credits: Children in low-income families local measure: 2015 snapshot as at 31 August 2015” published on 28 February, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs explained that the introduction of Universal Credit and the High Income Child Benefit charge would have an impact on the publication’s estimates of number of children in low income families, and made an assessment of the impacts.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, HMRC are engaging with users of these statistics to better understand the implications of these impacts so it can develop and assess options for improving these statistics so they continue to meet user needs.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 130805 question first answered 08/03/2018 14:06:31 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

855498

registered interest
date	05/03/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to take steps to improve the accuracy of HMRC estimates of the extent of child poverty.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	130805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>In the most recent publication “Personal tax credits: Children in low-income families local measure: 2015 snapshot as at 31 August 2015” published on 28 February, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs explained that the introduction of Universal Credit and the High Income Child Benefit charge would have an impact on the publication’s estimates of number of children in low income families, and made an assessment of the impacts.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, HMRC are engaging with users of these statistics to better understand the implications of these impacts so it can develop and assess options for improving these statistics so they continue to meet user needs.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 130804 question first answered 08/03/2018 14:06:31 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

788986

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Business: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on productivity of businesses adopting digital technology; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	112803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of businesses adopting digital technology as this enhances productivity growth. The CBI estimate that increasing business adoption of key technologies and management practices could be worth over £100bn to UK GVA. At Autumn Statement 2016 we announced £13 million funding to support a private sector-led Productivity Leadership Group. The Group will drive engagement to improve business productivity, including through appropriate use of digital technologies.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/11/2017 13:43:59 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

778111

registered interest
date	26/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Government Departments: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what financial provision has been made across Government for the period after March 2019 in the event that no deal is reached during negotiations between the UK and the EU in (a) the current financial year and (b) each of the next two financial years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	109860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>The Treasury has committed over £250 million of additional spending in 2017-18 to prepare for Brexit from the Reserve. Departmental allocations will be set out at Supplementary Estimates in the usual way. This is in addition to the £412m of additional funding over the parliament announced at Autumn Statement 2016 for the Department of International Trade, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Exiting the European Union. That means the government has allocated over half a billion pounds so far in funding to ensure a successful exit from the EU. An update on Brexit spending will also be provided at Autumn Budget.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 31/10/2017 14:31:04 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

747563

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the one per cent public sector pay cap on the levels of child poverty since 2010.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	2608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>The government is committed to tackling the root causes of poverty and considers work as the best route out of poverty. At Summer Budget 2015, it was announced that the Government will fund public sector workforces for an average annual pay increase of 1 per cent for the 4 years from 2016-17 onwards. The impact of this pay policy was considered for various groups and, at the time, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimated that this policy would protect 200,000 public sector jobs. The Statutory Life Chances indicators on parental worklessness and educational attainment are published annually and track progress on tackling the root causes of poverty.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 06/07/2017 15:31:03 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

47215

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will visit further education colleges to discuss the effect of his proposed 17.5 per cent reduction from September for funding for 18 year olds in full-time education.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	195446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>I have received a large number of invitations to discuss this topic and sadly cannot accept nearly as many as I would like to.</p><p>Nevertheless, I have listened to the views of the hon. and Rt hon. Members, as well as those of colleges and other providers of 16-to-19 education. I am pleased that we have been able to afford to mitigate the impact of the funding reduction on 18-year-olds in the academic year 2014/15. We will cap any losses in relation to this at 2% of the funding that an institution receives for the education of 16-to-19 year olds.</p><p>However, the overriding need to tackle the budget deficit remains, and so the full funding reduction for 18-year-olds will still be necessary in 2015/16. We have carried out and published an impact assessment, which is available online:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-reduction-for-18-year-olds-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-reduction-for-18-year-olds-impact-assessment</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

47217

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposed 17.5 per cent reduction in funding for full-time education on 18 year olds from ethnic minorities who (a) have poor prior attainment and (b) speak English as an additional language.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	195478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has published an impact assessment, which is available online:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-reduction-for-18-year-olds-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-reduction-for-18-year-olds-impact-assessment</a>.</p><p>The impact assessment looked at the proportion of 18-year-old black and minority ethnic (BME) students in full-time education who attract a funding uplift for disadvantage based on the level of deprivation of their home postcode, compared with the proportion of all 16- to 18-year-old BME students. It shows that 18-year-old BME students in full-time education are not more likely to be from disadvantaged areas than 16- to 18–year-old BME students as a whole.</p><p>I am pleased that we have been able to afford to mitigate the impact of the funding reduction on 18-year-olds in the academic year 2014/15. We will cap any losses in relation to this at 2% of the funding that an institution receives for the education of 16- to 19-year-olds.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms