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114602

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Economic Situation
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 a reduction in growth in the Eurozone on economic performance in (a) each region of the UK and (b) the UK as a whole.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	213461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>We are one of the most open economies in the world through trade and financial channels. The U.K. isn't immune to weakness in the euro area and instability in global markets, so we face a critical moment for our economy. Despite these headwinds Britain’s long-term economic plan is working, boosting economic security for Britain’s hardworking people. The economy is growing, the deficit is falling and there are record levels of people in work. Unemployment has fallen over the last year in every region of the UK and compared to the same period a year ago, the UK was the fastest growing major advanced economy (G7) in the first half of the year. But the job is not done and the biggest risk now to the recovery would be abandoning the plan that is delivering a brighter economic future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 17/11/2014 16:44:25 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

114612

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
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 integration costs likely to be incurred when passing HM Revenue and Customs Aspire Contract Work to potential new suppliers.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	David Wright
uin	213647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Over the 7 year period from 07/08 to 13/14 there is an annual c£3m productivity improvement a year on average.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs is in the process of preparing a Business Case to manage the end of the Aspire contract in June 2017.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has one of the largest outsourced IT contracts in the world, enabling us to deliver a very wide range of services to more than 50 million customers.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to delivering all this for the minimum cost to the taxpayer. As the NAO report recognises, the Aspire contract helped the department to collect almost £506 billion for the UK in the last year alone as well as improving services to customers.</p><p> </p><p>The NAO also recognises the progress that HMRC has made over the last two years in developing in-house technical skills, so that we are less dependent on external suppliers. For instance, we recently opened a new Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle as part of our Digital transformation programme.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to improve the performance of the contract over the next three years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213650 question first answered 17/11/2014 17:48:02 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1461 label Biography information for David Wright

114619

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many apprentices were removed from their apprenticeship programme to cover tax credit renewal work in the last two weeks of July 2014; and where such apprentices were based.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	David Wright
uin	213643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) trained and deployed a flexible resource of just over 2000 staff from across the Department and deployed them in stages from 23rd June until the end of the Tax credit peak to ensure that the peak was a better experience for customers this year than it has been in earlier years. The Tax Credit peak this year was a huge team effort with staff of all grades including senior members of staff volunteering to help support our customers by taking telephone calls.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not have a record of how many of these additional staff were apprentices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213644 question first answered 17/11/2014 16:46:39 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1461 label Biography information for David Wright

114621

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the National Audit Office report, Managing and replacing the Aspire contract, HC 444, published on 22 July 2014, if he will estimate the savings to the public purse that he expects to accrue from the improvement in HM Revenue and Customs IT service availability identified in that report.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	David Wright
uin	213650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Over the 7 year period from 07/08 to 13/14 there is an annual c£3m productivity improvement a year on average.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs is in the process of preparing a Business Case to manage the end of the Aspire contract in June 2017.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has one of the largest outsourced IT contracts in the world, enabling us to deliver a very wide range of services to more than 50 million customers.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to delivering all this for the minimum cost to the taxpayer. As the NAO report recognises, the Aspire contract helped the department to collect almost £506 billion for the UK in the last year alone as well as improving services to customers.</p><p> </p><p>The NAO also recognises the progress that HMRC has made over the last two years in developing in-house technical skills, so that we are less dependent on external suppliers. For instance, we recently opened a new Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle as part of our Digital transformation programme.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to improve the performance of the contract over the next three years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213647 question first answered 17/11/2014 17:48:01 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1461 label Biography information for David Wright

114623

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff by grade and pay band were moved to the tax credit renewal work by HM Revenue and Customs business area in the last two weeks of July 2014.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	David Wright
uin	213644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) trained and deployed a flexible resource of just over 2000 staff from across the Department and deployed them in stages from 23rd June until the end of the Tax credit peak to ensure that the peak was a better experience for customers this year than it has been in earlier years. The Tax Credit peak this year was a huge team effort with staff of all grades including senior members of staff volunteering to help support our customers by taking telephone calls.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not have a record of how many of these additional staff were apprentices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213643 question first answered 17/11/2014 16:46:39 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1461 label Biography information for David Wright

114943

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the feasibility of sharing child tax credits proportionally between care givers where custody is split.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	213489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Although splitting the support may appear straightforward, the reality is likely to be quite different. If, under current arrangements, parents cannot agree who should receive the support, they are just as unlikely to agree about how the payments should be split where more formal arrangements exist.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Directing payment of Child Tax Credit to the person mainly responsible for looking after the children ensures that the money goes to the person most likely to be providing day to day care. Even where care of the child is shared it is usually the case that there is one person that bears more of the weight of everyday responsibility for the child and meets the everyday expenditure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has already prioritised investing in early education and child care to support all families, including those with separated parents, through: extending the free entitlement to provide 15 hours a week of free early education and child care for all three and four-year-olds, and to 40% of two-year-olds from lower income families; and providing 70% of child care costs through the Working Tax Credit and extending this support under Universal Credit to those working fewer than 16 hours a week.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/11/2014 16:47:15 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

106215

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many criminal prosecutions for non-payment or other breaches of the law related to the landfill tax there have been in each year since that tax's introduction.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	213281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling tax fraud and avoidance and has re-invested almost £1 billion in HMRC to strengthen the response to criminal attacks on the tax system, tax avoidance, and unpaid tax debt.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s response to non-compliance is tailored to the seriousness of the offence. HMRC is actively responding to the risks in the sector, and working with the National Crime Agency to develop and deliver a comprehensive multi-agency waste sector campaign.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Visits to landfill sites are one part of HMRC’s response to landfill tax compliance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to these visits and audit checks, HMRC has launched a cross-tax waste sector pilot exercise which is currently under way, where cases are being worked across all taxes, rather than just landfill tax. HMRC is also working collaboratively with other agencies to tackle non-compliance and develop a joined up multi-agency strategy, capitalising on the full range of sanctions available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC adopts a risk-based approach to compliance activity to enable resources to be deployed flexibly to areas of highest risk and does not therefore allocate budgets to any particular tax regime</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s management information systems are unable to identify the number of complaints received specifically about the non-payment of landfill tax without incurring disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213276 213277 213278 213279 213280 213282 213284 question first answered 12/11/2014 11:52:51 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

106216

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate HM Revenue and Customs has made of the amount of landfill tax outstanding from landfill operators.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	213282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling tax fraud and avoidance and has re-invested almost £1 billion in HMRC to strengthen the response to criminal attacks on the tax system, tax avoidance, and unpaid tax debt.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s response to non-compliance is tailored to the seriousness of the offence. HMRC is actively responding to the risks in the sector, and working with the National Crime Agency to develop and deliver a comprehensive multi-agency waste sector campaign.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Visits to landfill sites are one part of HMRC’s response to landfill tax compliance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to these visits and audit checks, HMRC has launched a cross-tax waste sector pilot exercise which is currently under way, where cases are being worked across all taxes, rather than just landfill tax. HMRC is also working collaboratively with other agencies to tackle non-compliance and develop a joined up multi-agency strategy, capitalising on the full range of sanctions available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC adopts a risk-based approach to compliance activity to enable resources to be deployed flexibly to areas of highest risk and does not therefore allocate budgets to any particular tax regime</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s management information systems are unable to identify the number of complaints received specifically about the non-payment of landfill tax without incurring disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213276 213277 213278 213279 213280 213281 213284 question first answered 12/11/2014 11:52:52 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

106217

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many visits to landfill sites have been conducted by HM Revenue and Customs to check landfill tax payments in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	213278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling tax fraud and avoidance and has re-invested almost £1 billion in HMRC to strengthen the response to criminal attacks on the tax system, tax avoidance, and unpaid tax debt.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s response to non-compliance is tailored to the seriousness of the offence. HMRC is actively responding to the risks in the sector, and working with the National Crime Agency to develop and deliver a comprehensive multi-agency waste sector campaign.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Visits to landfill sites are one part of HMRC’s response to landfill tax compliance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to these visits and audit checks, HMRC has launched a cross-tax waste sector pilot exercise which is currently under way, where cases are being worked across all taxes, rather than just landfill tax. HMRC is also working collaboratively with other agencies to tackle non-compliance and develop a joined up multi-agency strategy, capitalising on the full range of sanctions available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC adopts a risk-based approach to compliance activity to enable resources to be deployed flexibly to areas of highest risk and does not therefore allocate budgets to any particular tax regime</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s management information systems are unable to identify the number of complaints received specifically about the non-payment of landfill tax without incurring disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213276 213277 213279 213280 213281 213282 213284 question first answered 12/11/2014 11:52:52 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

106218

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the budget is of HM Revenue and Customs to investigate landfill tax fraud.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	213284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling tax fraud and avoidance and has re-invested almost £1 billion in HMRC to strengthen the response to criminal attacks on the tax system, tax avoidance, and unpaid tax debt.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s response to non-compliance is tailored to the seriousness of the offence. HMRC is actively responding to the risks in the sector, and working with the National Crime Agency to develop and deliver a comprehensive multi-agency waste sector campaign.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Visits to landfill sites are one part of HMRC’s response to landfill tax compliance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to these visits and audit checks, HMRC has launched a cross-tax waste sector pilot exercise which is currently under way, where cases are being worked across all taxes, rather than just landfill tax. HMRC is also working collaboratively with other agencies to tackle non-compliance and develop a joined up multi-agency strategy, capitalising on the full range of sanctions available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC adopts a risk-based approach to compliance activity to enable resources to be deployed flexibly to areas of highest risk and does not therefore allocate budgets to any particular tax regime</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s management information systems are unable to identify the number of complaints received specifically about the non-payment of landfill tax without incurring disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 213276 213277 213278 213279 213280 213281 213282 question first answered 12/11/2014 11:52:52 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones