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1121424

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the £1,000 work allowance increase announced in Budget 2018.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	244182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The £1,000 increase to the Universal Credit (UC) work allowance, announced in Budget 2018, will increase the amount that 2.4 million households can earn before their UC begins to be withdrawn. This change will enable working parents and people with disabilities on Universal Credit to keep over £630 extra income each year. The Budget 2018 work allowance change increased government support for UC by £1.7bn per year by 2023-24. No assessment has been made of the cost of a further £1,000 increase in the work allowances over and above those which were increased in Budget 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury’s distributional analysis, published alongside Budget 2018, shows the cumulative effect on household incomes of policies on welfare, tax, and public service spending measures. Because different measures often interact with each other, this cumulative assessment provides the best representation of the overall intended policy effect. This shows that since this Chancellor and Prime Minister took office, their decisions have benefited households throughout the income distribution, with the poorest households gaining the most as a percentage of net income.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 244183 244184 244185 question first answered 29/04/2019 12:48:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1121425

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the distributional effect by decile of the work allowance increase announced in Budget 2018; and what proportional increase in the income of each income decile will be.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	244183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The £1,000 increase to the Universal Credit (UC) work allowance, announced in Budget 2018, will increase the amount that 2.4 million households can earn before their UC begins to be withdrawn. This change will enable working parents and people with disabilities on Universal Credit to keep over £630 extra income each year. The Budget 2018 work allowance change increased government support for UC by £1.7bn per year by 2023-24. No assessment has been made of the cost of a further £1,000 increase in the work allowances over and above those which were increased in Budget 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury’s distributional analysis, published alongside Budget 2018, shows the cumulative effect on household incomes of policies on welfare, tax, and public service spending measures. Because different measures often interact with each other, this cumulative assessment provides the best representation of the overall intended policy effect. This shows that since this Chancellor and Prime Minister took office, their decisions have benefited households throughout the income distribution, with the poorest households gaining the most as a percentage of net income.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 244182 244184 244185 question first answered 29/04/2019 12:48:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1121426

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the fiscal cost would be of a further £1,000 increase to the same work allowances which were increased in Budget 2018.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	244184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The £1,000 increase to the Universal Credit (UC) work allowance, announced in Budget 2018, will increase the amount that 2.4 million households can earn before their UC begins to be withdrawn. This change will enable working parents and people with disabilities on Universal Credit to keep over £630 extra income each year. The Budget 2018 work allowance change increased government support for UC by £1.7bn per year by 2023-24. No assessment has been made of the cost of a further £1,000 increase in the work allowances over and above those which were increased in Budget 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury’s distributional analysis, published alongside Budget 2018, shows the cumulative effect on household incomes of policies on welfare, tax, and public service spending measures. Because different measures often interact with each other, this cumulative assessment provides the best representation of the overall intended policy effect. This shows that since this Chancellor and Prime Minister took office, their decisions have benefited households throughout the income distribution, with the poorest households gaining the most as a percentage of net income.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 244182 244183 244185 question first answered 29/04/2019 12:48:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1121427

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the distributional effect of a further £1,000 increase to the same work allowances which were increased in Budget 2018 on the percentage increase in the incomes of each decile.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	244185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The £1,000 increase to the Universal Credit (UC) work allowance, announced in Budget 2018, will increase the amount that 2.4 million households can earn before their UC begins to be withdrawn. This change will enable working parents and people with disabilities on Universal Credit to keep over £630 extra income each year. The Budget 2018 work allowance change increased government support for UC by £1.7bn per year by 2023-24. No assessment has been made of the cost of a further £1,000 increase in the work allowances over and above those which were increased in Budget 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury’s distributional analysis, published alongside Budget 2018, shows the cumulative effect on household incomes of policies on welfare, tax, and public service spending measures. Because different measures often interact with each other, this cumulative assessment provides the best representation of the overall intended policy effect. This shows that since this Chancellor and Prime Minister took office, their decisions have benefited households throughout the income distribution, with the poorest households gaining the most as a percentage of net income.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 244182 244183 244184 question first answered 29/04/2019 12:48:56 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1111109

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Six-figure taxpayer-funded public sector exit payments to end published on 10 April 2019, (a) how many exit payments were made by each public sector employer and (b) what the value of those exit payments was by employer in the latest period for which for which data figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	243540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of exit payments made by public sector employers is available publicly in their annual accounts and reports. The table attached consolidates this information and contains the number of exit payments made by public sector employers and the total amount of these exit payments.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 23/04/2019 15:24:37 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss attachment 1 file name Public sector exit payments WGA - Table for PQ.docx title Table for PQ response
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1111187

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Spring Statement of 13 March 2019, Official Report, volume 656, column 372, what recent discussions he has held with the Secretary of State for Transport on future investment in the East Coast Main Line.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	243442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The Chancellor holds regular bilateral meetings with the Secretary of State for Transport where they discuss a range of issues. With regards to facilitating greater transport connections for regions north of York, a £780m fund was made available in July 2018 for major upgrades. A significant proportion of this will fund power supply upgrades between Doncaster and Edinburgh. When combined with the new Intercity Express Trains, this will provide passengers with more seats as well as faster, more frequent journeys on the line.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 23/04/2019 13:40:17 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1111257

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Period Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions has he had with the Secretary of State for Education on extend the provision of free sanitary products to (a) primary schools, (b) homeless shelters and (c) foodbanks.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	243559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The government has listened to concerns from teachers, pupils, students and parents about how the costs of period products can impact on education.</p><p> </p><p>No-one should be held back from reaching their potential, which is why at Spring Statement the Chancellor announced a scheme to provide access to free sanitary products in secondary schools and colleges in England, and that this will be fully funded by the government.</p><p> </p><p>On 16 April, the Department for Education announced that this funding will be extended to cover primary schools.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 23/04/2019 12:46:18 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1110772

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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, what forecast the Office of Budget responsibility has made for spending on tax-free childcare in each year since its introduction and until 2025.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	242848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The forecasts for spending on Tax-Free Childcare can be found in table 4.17 of the OBR’s Economic &amp; Fiscal Outlook (<a href="https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf</a>) and are contained in table 1 below, along with forecasts of the number of families and the proportion of eligible families using Tax-Free Childcare.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Outturn</strong></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023/24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TFC Spending</strong></p></td><td><p>£32m</p></td><td><p>£0.1bn</p></td><td><p>£0.3bn</p></td><td><p>£0.4bn</p></td><td><p>£0.6bn</p></td><td><p>£0.8bn</p></td><td><p>£1.0bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Families Using TFC (at year end)</strong></p></td><td><p>47,000</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td><td><p>0.5m</p></td><td><p>0.6m</p></td><td><p>0.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Proportion of Eligible Families Using TFC</strong></p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>24%</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Details on Tax-Free Childcare usage up to December 2018 can be found in the official statistics publication (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-free-childcare-statistics-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-free-childcare-statistics-december-2018</a>).</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The statistics show that 90,800 families used Tax-Free Childcare in December 2018. This represents around 5.8 per cent of eligible families.</p><p> </p><p>The statistics also show that 256,900 families had an open Tax-Free Childcare account in December 2018, and that 35 per cent of these had been used during the month.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 242849 242850 242852 question first answered 23/04/2019 07:04:43 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1110773

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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 and what proportion of families estimated to be eligible for tax-free childcare have received such childcare in each year since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	242849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The forecasts for spending on Tax-Free Childcare can be found in table 4.17 of the OBR’s Economic &amp; Fiscal Outlook (<a href="https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf</a>) and are contained in table 1 below, along with forecasts of the number of families and the proportion of eligible families using Tax-Free Childcare.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Outturn</strong></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023/24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TFC Spending</strong></p></td><td><p>£32m</p></td><td><p>£0.1bn</p></td><td><p>£0.3bn</p></td><td><p>£0.4bn</p></td><td><p>£0.6bn</p></td><td><p>£0.8bn</p></td><td><p>£1.0bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Families Using TFC (at year end)</strong></p></td><td><p>47,000</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td><td><p>0.5m</p></td><td><p>0.6m</p></td><td><p>0.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Proportion of Eligible Families Using TFC</strong></p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>24%</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Details on Tax-Free Childcare usage up to December 2018 can be found in the official statistics publication (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-free-childcare-statistics-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-free-childcare-statistics-december-2018</a>).</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The statistics show that 90,800 families used Tax-Free Childcare in December 2018. This represents around 5.8 per cent of eligible families.</p><p> </p><p>The statistics also show that 256,900 families had an open Tax-Free Childcare account in December 2018, and that 35 per cent of these had been used during the month.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 242848 242850 242852 question first answered 23/04/2019 07:04:44 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1110774

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of families who will access tax-free childcare in each year up to 2025.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	242850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The forecasts for spending on Tax-Free Childcare can be found in table 4.17 of the OBR’s Economic &amp; Fiscal Outlook (<a href="https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.obr.uk/March-2019_EFO_Web-Accessible.pdf</a>) and are contained in table 1 below, along with forecasts of the number of families and the proportion of eligible families using Tax-Free Childcare.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Outturn</strong></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Forecast</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023/24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TFC Spending</strong></p></td><td><p>£32m</p></td><td><p>£0.1bn</p></td><td><p>£0.3bn</p></td><td><p>£0.4bn</p></td><td><p>£0.6bn</p></td><td><p>£0.8bn</p></td><td><p>£1.0bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Families Using TFC (at year end)</strong></p></td><td><p>47,000</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td><td><p>0.5m</p></td><td><p>0.6m</p></td><td><p>0.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Proportion of Eligible Families Using TFC</strong></p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>24%</p></td><td><p>32%</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>49%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Details on Tax-Free Childcare usage up to December 2018 can be found in the official statistics publication (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-free-childcare-statistics-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tax-free-childcare-statistics-december-2018</a>).</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The statistics show that 90,800 families used Tax-Free Childcare in December 2018. This represents around 5.8 per cent of eligible families.</p><p> </p><p>The statistics also show that 256,900 families had an open Tax-Free Childcare account in December 2018, and that 35 per cent of these had been used during the month.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 242848 242849 242852 question first answered 23/04/2019 07:04:44 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell