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1137523

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date	08/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Finance
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 increase protection for small businesses taking out finance.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	274603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>On 1 April 2019 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) widened eligibility to take a complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) to include ‘small businesses’ who have:</p><ol><ol><li><p>an annual turnover of less than £6.5m; and</p></li><li><p>an annual balance sheet total of less than £5m; or</p></li><li><p>fewer than 50 employees.</p><p>‘Micro-enterprises’ were already eligible, and over 99% of businesses are now within the remit of the FOS. The FCA also increased the maximum FOS award limit to £350,000.</p><p> </p><p>The banking industry have also committed to establishing a new Dispute Resolution Service to resolve both future complaints from businesses with a turnover between £6.5m and £10m, and unresolved historic complaints.</p></li></ol></ol> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/07/2019 09:50:39 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1137525

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date	08/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking through the business rate system to support large retailers that act as anchor stores.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	274605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>From April 2018 the Government switched the annual indexation of the business rates multiplier from RPI to the lower rate of CPI inflation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This change is worth almost £6bn over the next five years and benefits all ratepayers, large and small.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also increasing the frequency of property revaluations, from every five years to every three, so that bills are fairer and more closely reflect properties’ current rental values.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/07/2019 08:35:36 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1137526

registered interest
date	08/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Funerals: Pre-payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to improve the protection of funds held by companies for prepaid funerals.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	274606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury launched a call for evidence on the regulation of pre-paid funeral plans in June 2018. The call for evidence has confirmed that consumer detriment is present in the pre-paid funeral plan sector and that there is broad demand for the sector to come under compulsory regulation.</p><p> </p><p>Consequently, the government intends to bring the pre-paid funeral plan market within the remit of the Financial Conduct Authority and is currently consulting on the proposed legislative framework to implement this proposal. This will allow the FCA to establish a robust regulatory regime which will apply to all funeral plan providers, and improve protection for consumers.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/07/2019 09:53:01 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon