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1454806

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Health and Social Care Levy
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 employers of the health and social care levy by sector.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	148172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text The table below shows the estimated exchequer yield of the employer portion of the Health and Social Care Levy, in the 2022 to 2023 tax year, by sector:<p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Sector</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Exchequer yield</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other*</p></td><td><p>£490m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accommodation and food service activities</p></td><td><p>£185m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Administrative and support service activities</p></td><td><p>£515m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arts, entertainment and recreation</p></td><td><p>£100m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Construction</p></td><td><p>£400m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Education</p></td><td><p>£995m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial and insurance activities</p></td><td><p>£1,000m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human health and social work activities</p></td><td><p>£975m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Information and communication</p></td><td><p>£685m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manufacturing</p></td><td><p>£895m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other service activities</p></td><td><p>£125m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professional, scientific and technical activities</p></td><td><p>£990m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Real estate activities</p></td><td><p>£155m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transportation and storage</p></td><td><p>£345m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles</p></td><td><p>£925m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>£8,775m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Figures are rounded to the nearest £5 million. Totals may not sum due to rounding.</p><p> </p><p>Other* sector includes: ‘Unknown’, ‘Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies’, ‘Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods-and services-producing activities of households for own use’, ‘Agriculture, forestry and fishing’, ‘Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply’, ‘Mining and quarrying’, ‘Public administration and defence; compulsory social security’, ‘Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities’. These sectors were aggregated due to their small size, to avoid the risk of disclosure.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/03/2022 16:03:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1454807

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Health and Social Care Levy
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 employers of the health and social care levy, by region.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	148173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide a regional breakdown of the employer portion of the Health and Social Care Levy impact.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/03/2022 15:55:00 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1454973

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what annual (a) expenditure has been allocated for the cost of implementing his Department’s Tax Administration Strategy reforms and (b) return to the Exchequer is forecast to result from that investment.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	148090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>At the recent Spending Review the government provided HMRC with funding to deliver the government’s ambition to build a modern digital tax and customs system as part of its Tax Administration Strategy.</p><p>Over the 3-year Spending Review period, HMRC will build on the success of the Making Tax Digital programme, helping to make tax simpler for businesses, reduce the scope for errors, and deliver the Single Customer Account, which will create a simpler, faster and better customer experience, allowing taxpayers to see and manage all their tax affairs in one place.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC was also given funding to modernise its IT systems and improve the quality, resilience and security of its digital services. This funding will reduce the risk of system failures, enhance the department’s ability to defend against cyberattacks and support the continued digitisation and modernisation of the tax system. It will also transform the way HMRC procures IT, creating more opportunities for smaller businesses to compete for contracts and deliver greater technological innovation.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/03/2022 16:06:03 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1455139

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of average HMRC telephony response times; and what recent assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) effectiveness of HMRC telephony response times.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	148262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>Information on HMRC’s performance is published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-monthly-performance-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-monthly-performance-reports</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-quarterly-performance-updates" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-quarterly-performance-updates</a></p><p> </p><p>HMRC is in discussion with HMT and Ministers to agree expected performance levels and commitments for 2022-23. These will be presented in the Outcome Delivery Plan, to be published early in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/03/2022 16:05:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1455148

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library (a) a list of meetings between him or officials in his Department and representatives of the payroll sector including the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals for (i) 1 January 2022 and (ii) 23 March 2022 and (b) the (A) agendas, (B) attendance notes and (C) minutes of those meetings; and whether discussions were held with representatives of the payroll sector on the timescale and method for implementing changes to National Insurance thresholds and rates.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	148153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery.</p><p> </p><p>Details of ministerial and permanent secretary meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis and are available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fhmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel&amp;data=04%7C01%7CDavid.Bissell%40hmtreasury.gov.uk%7C17326a450e0a4de4d9b108da131ede07%7Ced1644c505e049e6bc39fcf7ac51c18c%7C0%7C0%7C637843320529224360%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=FgXQDpKbE%2FxS2RCxbBHlvOsqYl1Y2u3%2F6a1Zo%2B%2FnqTQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel</a></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/03/2022 16:00:58 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1455151

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Enterprise Management Incentives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place a copy of the (a) evidence underpinning the decision taken in the 2022 Spring Statement to not make changes to the Enterprise Management Incentive, (b) summary of consultation responses, (c) any commissioned or internal evaluation and (d) any other relevant data or other evidence, in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	148154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government will publish a summary of responses to the Enterprise Management Incentive review once the review has concluded. Any externally commissioned evaluation will be published in the usual way, in line with the Government’s Social Research Publication Protocol.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 31/03/2022 16:01:45 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1455152

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Capital Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by how much the Office for Budget Responsibility revised up or down its estimate of the impact of the Corporation Tax Super-deduction on business investment between the October 2021 Economic and Fiscal Outlook and the March 2022 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	148155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>In the latest Economy and Fiscal Outlook, the OBR have said that the super-deduction and the easing of global supply bottlenecks means they still expect historically high growth in business investment over 2022. The OBR have revised down the anticipated peak amount of business investment brought forward by the super-deduction to 5 per cent in 2022-23 (from the 10 per cent previously assumed).</p><p> </p><p>A full evaluation of the effectiveness of the super-deduction in stimulating business investment will require HMRC to hold corporate tax returns for the financial years 2021-22 and 2022-23. Any externally commissioned evaluation will be published in the usual way, in line with the Government Social Research Publication Protocol.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 148156 question first answered 31/03/2022 15:58:02 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1455153

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Capital Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place a copy of any interim or final evidence held by his Department on the effectiveness of the Corporation Tax Super-deduction in stimulating business investment, including quantitative data, process or outcome evaluation, in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	148156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>In the latest Economy and Fiscal Outlook, the OBR have said that the super-deduction and the easing of global supply bottlenecks means they still expect historically high growth in business investment over 2022. The OBR have revised down the anticipated peak amount of business investment brought forward by the super-deduction to 5 per cent in 2022-23 (from the 10 per cent previously assumed).</p><p> </p><p>A full evaluation of the effectiveness of the super-deduction in stimulating business investment will require HMRC to hold corporate tax returns for the financial years 2021-22 and 2022-23. Any externally commissioned evaluation will be published in the usual way, in line with the Government Social Research Publication Protocol.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 148155 question first answered 31/03/2022 15:58:02 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1455193

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Employees' Contributions: Females
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 number of women who will be affected by the increase of the Married Women’s Reduced Rate of National Insurance contributions made by the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2022; and if he will publish a breakdown of those women by their (i) average age, (ii) average earnings, (iii) average level of savings, (iv) average level of deprivation and (v) job.
tabling member constituency	Ealing North
tabling member printed	James Murray
uin	148407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text HMRC expects there to be fewer than 1,000 employments that would be affected by this Statutory Instrument (SI). No breakdown is readily available to provide the data requested for this group of women.<p> </p><p>This component of the Health and Social Care Levy (HSCL) policy is expected to have a small impact on the Exchequer. This impact is included within the wider costings of the HSCL and has not been costed separately. As the measure was announced last September, the impact of the changes contained in this SI have already been captured in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast, which was most recently updated alongside the Spring Statement. The Exchequer Impact relating more broadly to the HSCL was set out in the Spring 2022 Economic and fiscal outlook Table A.5: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fobr.uk%2Fdocs%2Fdlm_uploads%2FCCS0222366764-001_OBR-EFO-March-2022_Web-Accessible-2.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7CDavid.Bissell%40hmtreasury.gov.uk%7C3073ed70b8e7409afdae08da131ebe38%7Ced1644c505e049e6bc39fcf7ac51c18c%7C0%7C0%7C637843319996123471%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=fQR6Xl9%2Fw7GDHOp%2Fnttu5tjW07GF5TL78ic19pcSsNA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/CCS0222366764-001_OBR-EFO-March-2022_Web-Accessible-2.pdf</a>. This SI was introduced to ensure a fair and consistent NICs system, so that those that pay NICs and benefit from additional health and social care spending, contribute.</p><p> </p><p>There are no additional costs resulting from this SI as the policy to introduce this change was set out following the introduction of the HSCL Act 2021. Not proceeding with this SI would have led to reversing the changes already being implemented by HMRC and external software providers which would have resulted in costs for payroll operators and businesses.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 148408 148409 question first answered 31/03/2022 15:53:06 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4797 label Biography information for James Murray

1455194

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Employees' Contributions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department expects to raise in 2022-23 as a result of the increase of the Married Women’s Reduced Rate of National Insurance contributions made by the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2022.
tabling member constituency	Ealing North
tabling member printed	James Murray
uin	148408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text HMRC expects there to be fewer than 1,000 employments that would be affected by this Statutory Instrument (SI). No breakdown is readily available to provide the data requested for this group of women.<p> </p><p>This component of the Health and Social Care Levy (HSCL) policy is expected to have a small impact on the Exchequer. This impact is included within the wider costings of the HSCL and has not been costed separately. As the measure was announced last September, the impact of the changes contained in this SI have already been captured in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast, which was most recently updated alongside the Spring Statement. The Exchequer Impact relating more broadly to the HSCL was set out in the Spring 2022 Economic and fiscal outlook Table A.5: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fobr.uk%2Fdocs%2Fdlm_uploads%2FCCS0222366764-001_OBR-EFO-March-2022_Web-Accessible-2.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7CDavid.Bissell%40hmtreasury.gov.uk%7C3073ed70b8e7409afdae08da131ebe38%7Ced1644c505e049e6bc39fcf7ac51c18c%7C0%7C0%7C637843319996123471%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=fQR6Xl9%2Fw7GDHOp%2Fnttu5tjW07GF5TL78ic19pcSsNA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/CCS0222366764-001_OBR-EFO-March-2022_Web-Accessible-2.pdf</a>. This SI was introduced to ensure a fair and consistent NICs system, so that those that pay NICs and benefit from additional health and social care spending, contribute.</p><p> </p><p>There are no additional costs resulting from this SI as the policy to introduce this change was set out following the introduction of the HSCL Act 2021. Not proceeding with this SI would have led to reversing the changes already being implemented by HMRC and external software providers which would have resulted in costs for payroll operators and businesses.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 148407 148409 question first answered 31/03/2022 15:53:06 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4797 label Biography information for James Murray