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1464584

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date	19/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Multinational Companies: Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to increase the number of staff in his Department assigned to work on tackling tax avoidance by multinational companies.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	5380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government has taken significant steps, domestically and internationally, to ensure companies pay the right amount of tax on their UK activities. That includes measures aimed at countering aggressive tax planning techniques like the introduction of the Diverted Profits Tax. It also includes taking a leading role in OECD discussions to reform the international tax framework and the agreement to a global minimum Corporation Tax as part of a two-pillar solution which helps ensure that the right companies pay the right amount of tax in the right place.</p><p> </p><p>Further, the Government has ensured that HMRC has the resources it needs through investing over £2 billion in HMRC since 2010 and allocating almost £300 million additional funding in the 2021 spending review to tackle avoidance, evasion and other forms of non-compliance</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 24/05/2022 12:53:42 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1464011

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Safeguard Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many days of (a) this quarter and (b) the previous quarter had elapsed when (i) Category 12a and (ii) Category 12b of the steel safeguards were exhausted.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	4726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Neither category were exhausted completely.</p><p> </p><p>For the current quarter: within Category 12a two out of the four quotas exhausted – the first after 24 days, and the second after 3 days, and within Category 12b one out of the three quotas exhausted after 34 days. The remaining balances from the quotas that did not exhaust have been transferred to the next quarter.</p><p> </p><p>For the previous quarter: within Category 12a two out of the four quotas were exhausted – the first after 25 days, and the second after 40 days. Within Category 12b one out of the three quotas were exhausted after 3 days.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 24/05/2022 13:19:33 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1464258

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Events Industry: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment in this financial year of what impact the current level of VAT being levied on ticket sales for cultural events is having on that industry; if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the VAT level thereon; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	4489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text VAT has been designed as a broad-based tax on consumption and the twenty per cent standard rate applies to the vast majority of goods and services, including tickets for cultural events. While there are exceptions to the standard rate, these have always been strictly limited by both legal and fiscal considerations. The Government keeps all taxes under review, but there are no plans to change the current VAT treatment on ticket sales.<p> </p><p>Tickets were within the scope of the temporary reduced rate of VAT for hospitality and tourism, which was introduced on 15 July 2020 to support the cash flow and viability of around 150,000 businesses and protect over 2.4 million jobs during the Coronavirus pandemic. This relief ended on 31 March 2022. It is right that as Coronavirus restrictions were lifted and demand for goods and services in these sectors increased, the temporary tax reliefs were first reduced and then removed in order to rebuild and strengthen the public finances.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 24/05/2022 12:59:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1463629

registered interest
date	17/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Aviation: Fuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the sustainability of finance from the UK-ETS to be used to support the development of the UK Sustainable aviation fuel industry.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	3567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Carbon pricing will play a key role in helping the UK achieve Net Zero. The UK launched our own Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) at the beginning of 2021, covering the power, industrial and aviation sectors. It raises funds to be invested across the Government’s spending priorities, including our public services as well as our Net Zero ambitions. The UK ETS Authority is currently consulting on developing the UK ETS, including aligning the total cap on emissions with net zero.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also supporting Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), although these are not ringfenced funds from the ETS. At the Spending Review, the Government committed £180m to accelerate the commercialisation of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) plants and to set up a UK clearing house for SAF. The Government also extended its long-term commitment to the aerospace sector, guaranteeing funding for the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) to 2031, co-investing with industry in world-class research and development. The ATI will receive a record £685m of funding over the next 3 years, an increase of more than 50%. This activity will help drive the development of zero-emission flight technology, which is an important part of our Jet Zero ambitions to decarbonise aviation.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 24/05/2022 13:11:23 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1463697

registered interest
date	17/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to help support freelancers and umbrella workers with the cost of the increase in national insurance contributions.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	3491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>It is right that health and social care has a new, completely dedicated and sustainable source of revenue not just today but into the future as well. Every penny collected from the Health and Social Care Levy goes direct to the NHS, health and social care. However, the Government has also been clear that the cost should be borne by those with the broadest shoulders. Over half of the Levy revenue comes from the highest 17% of earners.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to helping hard-working families with cost of living. To help individuals and families keep more of what they earn, the Government is aligning the annual Primary Threshold and Lower Profits Limit - the point at which employees and the self-employed respectively start paying National Insurance contributions (NICs) - with the income tax personal allowance at £12,570 from July 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Around 2.2m working age people will be taken out of paying Class 1 and Class 4 NICs altogether, on top of the 6.1m who already do not pay NICs.</p><p>This is a tax cut worth over £330 for a typical employee in the first year. From July, around 70% of workers who pay NICs are estimated to be better off, even accounting for the introduction of the Levy.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2022 self-employed individuals with profits between the Small Profits Threshold and Lower Profits Limit will continue to build up National Insurance credits but will not pay any Class 2 NICs.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 24/05/2022 13:13:49 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1463177

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Information Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Revenue and Customs spent on the employment of communications staff in 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	2531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Expenditure on communications staffing was £17.25m in 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 24/05/2022 13:06:05 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1463234

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fossil Fuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has taken any steps since the publication in 2020 of the Doubling Back and Doubling Down G20 scorecard on fossil fuel funding to improve the UK’s (a) very poor rating for progress in ending support for fossil fuels, (b) opaque rating for transparency and (c) overall ranking as joint last of OECD nations; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The UK does not give any subsidies to fossil fuels, and follows the approach of the International Energy Agency, which defines fossil fuel subsidies as measures that reduce the effective price of fossil fuels below world market prices.</p><p> </p><p>The International Energy Agency has a long-standing track record in systematically measuring fossil-fuel subsidies using a commonly applied methodology. This definition was originally developed with the European Commission and G20 EU Member States to respond to the G20 commitment to phase out such subsidies.</p><p> </p><p>The government takes its environmental responsibilities seriously, and recently published the Net Zero Strategy on how the UK will deliver on its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Pricing carbon (including through tax) is one of the most efficient tools for promoting decarbonisation and already plays a key role in helping the UK achieve net zero emissions. There are also a number of taxes, including the Climate Change Levy and Vehicle Excise Duty, that are designed to encourage businesses and consumers to make greener choices.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>The government keeps all taxes under review, and any changes are made in the round at fiscal events.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 24/05/2022 13:03:21 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas