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600538

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Richard Paniguian
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether any conditions were imposed on Sir Richard Paniguian's appointment to the board of Raytheon Systems.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	48445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills considered Richard Paniguian’s application to take up a Non–Executive Director role with Raytheon under the Business Appointment Rules.</p><p>The Department approved the above appointment subject to the conditions that:</p><ul><li>Richard should not draw on privileged information available to him from his time in Crown service; and</li><li>for two years from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK Government on behalf of Raytheon or its clients.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 17/10/2016 16:10:05 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

600540

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix: Standards
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 (a) the amount of money wrongly withheld from benefit claimants due to errors made by Concentrix and (b) the average length of time that payments were mistakenly withheld.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	48377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is currently focussed on resolving the outstanding cases but will be preparing analysis, which will be available in due course. HMRC does not keep records of the total number of people who had their tax credits payments withheld, or for how long</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 48378 48379 question first answered 17/10/2016 16:13:16 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

600541

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix
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 number of people who have had their tax credits stopped and subsequently reinstated by Concentrix due to incorrect information held on claimants cohabiting.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	48378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is currently focussed on resolving the outstanding cases but will be preparing analysis, which will be available in due course. HMRC does not keep records of the total number of people who had their tax credits payments withheld, or for how long</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 48377 48379 question first answered 17/10/2016 16:13:16 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

600542

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations the UK Government has made to the World Health Organisation on proposals to change tax rates for e-cigarettes.
tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
uin	48448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>HMT has made no representations to the WHO on proposals to change tax rates for e-cigarettes.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/10/2016 16:37:31 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

600551

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment has been made of the performance of Concentrix in resolving complaints regarding how they have dealt with tax credit claims.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	48360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Concentrix are required to respond to any complaints which relate to the quality of their handling of compliance interventions, as distinct from complaints on the substance of these investigations which are dealt with by HM Revenue and Customs.</p><p> </p><p>Further details are available in section A21 of the Concentrix contract. The contract is in the public domain and can be found at: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/85d1b730-5e4e-4be8-ae4c-3ac1f359afc7" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/85d1b730-5e4e-4be8-ae4c-3ac1f359afc7</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Concentrix’s contract requires them to respond 80% of these complaints within 15 working days; and to reply to 100% of complaints within 40 working days. From November 2014 to 12 October 2016, Concentrix have received 97 complaints. They replied to 61.86% within 15 days and 70.11% within 40 days.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/10/2016 16:21:47 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

600553

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many claimants in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Redcar and Cleveland and (d) Middlesbrough have had a tax credit claimed stopped and subsequently reinstated by Concentrix in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	48379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is currently focussed on resolving the outstanding cases but will be preparing analysis, which will be available in due course. HMRC does not keep records of the total number of people who had their tax credits payments withheld, or for how long</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 48377 48378 question first answered 17/10/2016 16:13:16 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

600558

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Individual Savings Accounts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many financial institutions offer the (a) flexible ISA, (b) help to buy ISA and (c) innovative finance ISA.
tabling member constituency	Gloucester
tabling member printed	Richard Graham
uin	48278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Treasury does not have details of how many financial institutions offer a flexible ISA, which allows savers to replace cash they have withdrawn from their ISA earlier in the year without this replacement counting towards the ISA subscription limit.</p><p> </p><p>The Help to Buy ISA is currently offered by 24 providers and 17 institutions have been approved by HM Revenue and Customs to offer Innovative Finance ISAs.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/10/2016 16:24:51 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

600559

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Individual Savings Accounts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value of assets is in pounds sterling in (a) the flexible ISA, (b) the help to buy ISA and (c) the innovative finance ISA.
tabling member constituency	Gloucester
tabling member printed	Richard Graham
uin	48277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Innovative Finance ISA and ISA flexibility were introduced in April 2016, and so no reported data on the value of assets held is available yet. Flexible ISAs are not a separate ISA product.</p><p> </p><p>The Help to Buy ISA is a cash ISA product. The total market value of cash ISAs at the end of 2015-16 was £251billion.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/10/2016 16:27:08 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

600562

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Construction: Taxation
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 loss of revenue to the Treasury as a result of (a) bogus self-employment and (b) workers being paid under the Construction Industry Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	48295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The House of Commons Library published a briefing paper, Self-employment in the construction industry, on 23 May 2016. The paper identifies that employment intermediaries facilitating false self-employment is the main source of bogus self-employment. HMRC estimated this had resulted in 200,000 people wrongly designated. There is no separate estimate of false self-employment within the Construction Industry Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/10/2016 16:22:59 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

600565

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Individual Savings Accounts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will take steps to ensure that consumers are aware that Lifetime ISA savings are from tax income whereas auto enrolment-contributions are from untaxed contributions.
tabling member constituency	Gloucester
tabling member printed	Richard Graham
uin	48452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government has always been clear that pension contributions receive generous tax relief. With all ISAs, all contributions to a Lifetime ISA will be made from an individual’s post tax income. They will then get a 25% bonus from the Government, up to the £4,000 yearly limit.</p><p> </p><p>The Government wants to make sure people have the information they need to make important financial decisions, and will publish factual information about the Lifetime ISA on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/10/2016 16:25:59 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham