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1041287

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Music Venues: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of trends in the level of business rates on the financial viability of small music venues.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	208216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury Ministers and officials are in regular contact with their counterparts in other government departments on a range of issues, including business rates.</p><p> </p><p>Since Budget 2016, we have announced cuts worth more than £13bn to businesses over the next five years, including switching to CPI indexation, and making Small Business Rate Relief more generous so that 655,000 of the smallest businesses pay no rates at all. The government also introduced a £3.6bn transitional relief scheme to support ratepayers facing bill increases as a result of the 2017 property revaluation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Budget 2018 announced a new business rates retail discount, cutting bills by a third for eligible businesses. As is set out in guidance, music venues may be eligible for the discount where they are broadly similar in nature to those properties listed as eligible. It is for local authorities to make that judgement.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 208217 question first answered 17/01/2019 16:24:04 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1041293

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Music Venues: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether (a) he has and (b) officials of his Department have met with (i) his and (ii) their counterparts in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to discuss extending business rates relief to small music venues.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	208217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury Ministers and officials are in regular contact with their counterparts in other government departments on a range of issues, including business rates.</p><p> </p><p>Since Budget 2016, we have announced cuts worth more than £13bn to businesses over the next five years, including switching to CPI indexation, and making Small Business Rate Relief more generous so that 655,000 of the smallest businesses pay no rates at all. The government also introduced a £3.6bn transitional relief scheme to support ratepayers facing bill increases as a result of the 2017 property revaluation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Budget 2018 announced a new business rates retail discount, cutting bills by a third for eligible businesses. As is set out in guidance, music venues may be eligible for the discount where they are broadly similar in nature to those properties listed as eligible. It is for local authorities to make that judgement.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 208216 question first answered 17/01/2019 16:24:04 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1041334

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution on the motion on Section 13(1)(b) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 on 10 January 2019, Official Report, Column 574, what technology proposals the Government has received on establishing a frictionless border between the UK and the EU.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	208348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Government Departments are working together across a range of complex issues regarding the UK’s border when we leave the EU; these include the use of technology based solutions, where they support the administration of the customs systems or traders to meet their obligations.</p><p>The Government will continue to consider potential applications of Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain and other emerging technologies for both tax and the customs and excise systems.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 17/01/2019 16:28:22 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1041335

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Brexit: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the oral contribution on the motion on Section 13(1)(b) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 on 10th January 2019, Official Report, Column 574, whether he has received expert advice on the feasibility of technology solutions to create a frictionless border in Northern Ireland whilst facilitating a different customs arrangement between the UK and the EU than exists at present.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	208349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government has been resolute in its commitments to Northern Ireland. This includes a commitment to maintaining the integrity of the UK and ensuring Northern Ireland and Great Britain are in the same customs territory.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to consider the potential applications of technology, including Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain, and other emerging technologies, to streamline customs processes.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 17/01/2019 16:26:43 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1041345

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Office of Tax Simplification: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many candidates in addition to Bill Dodwell were interviewed for the role of Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	208201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>A number of strong applications were received for the position of Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) and four candidates were interviewed.</p><p> </p><p>The appointment was made on merit.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 17/01/2019 16:22:29 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1041359

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the announcement that the Peterlee HMRC office closure will be delayed, which other HMRC offices will have their closures delayed; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	208357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>HMRC is confident that its overall strategy of moving to regional centres is correct. There are no current plans to retain any other offices for longer.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does however recognise that its approach needs to be flexible to ensure it can respond to changing priorities, which may involve closing some offices earlier than originally planned or, as in the case of Peterlee, keeping other offices open later than planned.</p><p> </p><p>On 8 January 2019 HMRC published an updated version of the Locations Programme <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/issue-briefing-hmrc-announces-next-step-in-its-ten-year-modernisation-programme/hmrc-makes-significant-progress-in-its-10-year-transformation-to-become-a-tax-authority-fit-for-the-future" target="_blank">Issue Briefing</a> on Gov.UK, setting out progress since the previous publication in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has also recently updated the Office Closure List which was previously provided to the House of Commons Library in December 2017. It shows the closure year for each office as announced in November 2015 and the updated closure date as at 30 November 2018.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 17/01/2019 16:25:47 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1041362

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Transport: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the most recent meeting was held under the auspices of the Border Delivery Group with ports and airports in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	208206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Borders Steering Group, run by the Borders Delivery Group and including ports and airports in Northern Ireland, met most recently on 7 December 2018.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 17/01/2019 16:30:32 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1041477

registered interest
date	14/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) large and (b)medium-sized companies have used HMRC's profit diversion compliance facility in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	208290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text No multinational businesses have used the Profit Diversion Compliance Facility yet as it was only launched on 10 January 2019.<p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 17/01/2019 16:20:19 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1038982

registered interest
date	10/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Music Venues: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has plans to assess the eligibility of music venues for discounted business rates.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
uin	207178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Budget 2018 announced a two-year business rates discount of one third for small retailers. As set out in the published guidance, the government considers retail to mean properties being used as shops, cafes, restaurants, and drinking establishments. It will be for local authorities to implement the discount and decide whether properties are similar in nature to those listed as eligible in the guidance. Music venues will only be eligible where they are similar in nature to those properties listed as eligible.</p><p> </p><p>This discount is part of Our Plan for the High Street, a £1.5bn support package. All ratepayers are benefitting from recent wide-ranging reductions to business rates; in total, cuts announced since Budget 2016 are worth more than £13bn to businesses over the next five years.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 17/01/2019 16:02:56 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

1038574

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Port of Ramsgate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the customs code for the Channel ports will be extended to the Port of Ramsgate.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	206830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that we do not want or expect a ‘no deal’ scenario, however we will continue to do the responsible thing and prepare for all eventualities.</p>In the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal, customs controls will be required on UK-EU trade. HMRC has been working closely with key RoRo locations and the businesses that facilitate trade through these locations to understand how best customs requirements can be implemented at Dover, Eurotunnel and other ports in Kent. In recognition of the unique nature of cross-Channel trade, and in response to stakeholder feedback, we are ensuring that a singular, joint location code covering both Dover and Eurotunnel can be used for the customs IT systems. This allows the haulier the flexibility of making last minute changes to routing, which is currently important for hauliers transporting goods to and from the EU. We will continue to work closely with the Department for Transport and other key stakeholders to plan for this scenario, including taking into account industry views on whether such a joint location code should be extended on any RoRo services that would operate out of Ramsgate. answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 17/01/2019 16:30:44 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald