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642137

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether his Department is undertaking investigations into the compliance of clinical commissioning groups' resourcing of child and adolescent mental health services with the provisions in section 11 of the Children Act 2004 on arrangements to safeguard and promote welfare.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	54310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>Children and young people’s mental health is a priority area for this Government. The Attorney General’s Office, however, does not have responsibility for investigations into the compliance of clinical commissioning groups' resourcing.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 25/11/2016 16:02:14 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

642144

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the introduction of Mutual Guarantee Societies on lending in to SMEs.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Rob Marris
uin	54350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>The Chancellor has not made an assessment of the impact of the introduction of Mutual Guarantee Societies on lending to SMEs or on the potential demand for Mutual Guarantee Societies in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>However, the FCA has received representations on this issue and officials plan to discuss this further with them.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby grouped question UIN 54349 question first answered 25/11/2016 10:37:19 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	1468 label Biography information for Rob Marris

642145

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential demand for Mutual Guarantee Societies is in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Rob Marris
uin	54349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>The Chancellor has not made an assessment of the impact of the introduction of Mutual Guarantee Societies on lending to SMEs or on the potential demand for Mutual Guarantee Societies in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>However, the FCA has received representations on this issue and officials plan to discuss this further with them.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby grouped question UIN 54350 question first answered 25/11/2016 10:37:19 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	1468 label Biography information for Rob Marris

642146

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the major barriers to self-employed people accessing bank lending.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Rob Marris
uin	54351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text The Treasury has not made such an assessment, but monitors lending to businesses of all sizes, including those run by the self-employed, from both banks and alternative finance providers. The British Business Bank also monitors closely and publishes reports on lending conditions, in line with its objective to make finance markets work better for small businesses.<p> </p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 25/11/2016 13:21:43 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	1468 label Biography information for Rob Marris

642147

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the European Commission since the EU referendum on its timetable for proposals to allow member states to set their own VAT rate on sanitary products.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	Natalie McGarry
uin	54108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>Since the referendum the UK has continued to raise the issue of a VAT zero-rate for women’s sanitary products with the European Commission in various fora.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/11/2016 10:44:08 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4428 label Biography information for Natalie McGarry

642150

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and which public telephone lines operated by HM Revenue and Customs are higher rate lines; how many calls have been made to those lines in the last 12 months for which data is available; what the average duration of calls was to each such line; and how much was charged to all callers using each such line.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	54180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) no longer operates higher rate telephone lines. All 0845 HMRC helplines were taken out of service in December 2014 and on 30 June 2015. HMRC decommissioned its 0845 helplines in line with HM Government and OfCom guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/11/2016 13:42:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

642153

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Personal Savings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the cash savings market study, published by the Financial Conduct Authority in January 2015, how quickly he expects any benefits to be experienced by savers as a result of changes introduced.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	54150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>In January 2015, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its Cash Savings Market Study, which found that competition in the cash savings market was not working well for many consumers. In response, the FCA has consulted on and are introducing new rules and guidance from 1 December 2016 to improve firms’ methods of disclosing information to customers on savings accounts and their interest rates. The rules will make it easier for customers to see what the interest rate is on their account and will place stricter provisions on firms to ensure customers are informed about cuts to their rates.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 25/11/2016 10:25:53 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

642154

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Off-payroll Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to announce the next steps in reforming IR35 investigations.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	54151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government confirmed at Autumn Statement 2016 that, following consultation, it will reform the off-payroll working rules in the public sector (often known as IR35) from 6 April 2017, by moving responsibility for operating them, and paying the correct tax, to the body paying the worker’s company. This reform will help to tackle the high levels of non-compliance with the current rules and means that those working in a similar way to employees in the public sector will pay the same taxes as employees.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/11/2016 10:45:24 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

642155

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pensions: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how he plans to assess the success of Pension Wise in ensuring that people have been sufficiently informed about their likely pension income in retirement.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	54152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>Government has already assessed, and continues to assess, the impact of the pension freedoms.</p><p>In advance of the introduction of the freedoms a Tax Information and Impact Note was published by HM Revenue and Customs. This is available on the Gov.uk website.</p><p>An impact assessment was also published for amendments to the 2015 Pension Schemes Act which covered transfers from private sector defined benefit schemes. This is available on the Parliament website.</p><p>Looking forward, HMRC publishes quarterly releases on flexible withdrawals from pensions, and the Financial Conduct Authority also produces regular bulletins on retirement income market data. My Department regularly meets with other government departments, non-departmental public bodies, regulators, think tanks and industry representative groups to consider how industry and individuals are responding to the freedoms.</p><p>The Government committed in its response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee in December 2015 to publish findings from the Pension Wise evaluation research in 2017. This work is now underway with Ipsos MORI and the early findings covering customer experiences of the service were published in October 2016 on the Gov.uk website. Further publications from this programme will follow in 2017 including a comparison between users of the service compared with non-users to identify the impact of the service on understanding of the new pension freedoms.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 53998 question first answered 25/11/2016 12:17:38 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

642156

registered interest
date	22/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Exchange Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what effect recent changes in the sterling rate has had on the UK's contribution to the EU.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	54314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>Member States’ contributions to the EU Budget are made in national currency based on an exchange rate fixed on the last working day before the start of the EU Budget year. There are no subsequent changes to the exchange rate in that year. Recent changes in the exchange rate have had no impact on our payments to the EU in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>As the OBR set out in their November 2016 forecast, changes in the exchange rate will affect the sterling value of euro-denominated payments, abatements and receipts. Overall, the OBR have revised down their forecast for the UK’s net contribution to the EU, which includes receipts to the UK public sector, over 2016-17 to 2020-21 by £0.3bn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 25/11/2016 10:46:36 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron