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1643067

registered interest
date	08/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions
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 potential impact of the EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism on the UK steel industry.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	188516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The government is continuing to assess the potential impact of the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) on UK businesses, including the steel industry, and is engaging with UK businesses on this.</p><p> </p><p>As the UK has an ambitious carbon pricing system through our Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and Carbon Price Support mechanism, we expect the EU CBAM to take account of this in its implementation.</p><p> </p><p>Full details of the EU CBAM will be known when the EU adopt the required implementing and delegated acts. UK officials are continuing to closely monitor this process and are waiting to see these before building a full understanding of potential impacts on UK businesses.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 14/06/2023 08:09:45 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1642713

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cost of Living and Mental Health Services: Greater London
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 trends in the levels of demand for financial and mental health support from families in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	188401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The government recognises the challenges facing households due to elevated costs of living, so took action at Spring Budget 2023 to go further to protect struggling families. This included interventions such as extending energy support by keeping the Energy Price Guarantee at £2,500 for three months from April, saving households an additional £160, ending the premium paid by over 4 million households using prepayment meters across the UK, introducing 30 hours of free childcare per week for working parents with children aged 9 months up to 3 years in England, cancelling the planned increase in fuel duty and keeping rates at current levels for the next 12 months, and increasing Draught Relief.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to the benefits uprating and support for vulnerable households announced at the Autumn Statement. Taken together, support to households to help with higher bills is worth £94 billion, or £3,300 per household on average, across 2022-23 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It is for Integrated Care Systems to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people who live and work in their area, including assessments of demand for mental health support, based on the specifics needs of the local population. However, the government remains dedicated to ensuring commissioners continue to meet the Mental Health Investment Standard, with investment in NHS mental health services having increased each year from almost £11 billion in 2015/16 to £15 billion in 2021/22. Furthermore, the recently published Plan for Patients set out the Government’s intention to continue to drive progress on the NHS Long Term Plan commitments to expand and transform NHS mental health services. The NHS Long Term Plan having seen at least £2.3 billion extra funding a year for mental health services by 2023/24 – supporting an additional two million people in England to access NHS-funded mental health services.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 14/06/2023 11:01:49 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1642257

registered interest
date	06/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cost of Living and Mental Health Services: Hampshire
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 trends in the levels of demand for financial and mental health support from families in Hampshire; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	188114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The government recognises the challenges facing households due to elevated costs of living, so took action at Spring Budget 2023 to go further to protect struggling families. This included interventions such as extending energy support by keeping the Energy Price Guarantee at £2,500 for three months from April, saving households an additional £160, ending the premium paid by over 4 million households using prepayment meters across the UK, introducing 30 hours of free childcare per week for working parents with children aged 9 months up to 3 years in England, cancelling the planned increase in fuel duty and keeping rates at current levels for the next 12 months, and increasing Draught Relief.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to the benefits uprating and support for vulnerable households announced at the Autumn Statement. Taken together, support to households to help with higher bills is worth £94 billion, or £3,300 per household on average, across 2022-23 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It is for Integrated Care Systems to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people who live and work in their area, including assessments of demand for mental health support, based on the specifics needs of the local population. However, the government remains dedicated to ensuring commissioners continue to meet the Mental Health Investment Standard, with investment in NHS mental health services having increased each year from almost £11 billion in 2015/16 to £15 billion in 2021/22. Furthermore, the recently published Plan for Patients set out the Government’s intention to continue to drive progress on the NHS Long Term Plan commitments to expand and transform NHS mental health services. The NHS Long Term Plan having seen at least £2.3 billion extra funding a year for mental health services by 2023/24 – supporting an additional two million people in England to access NHS-funded mental health services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 14/06/2023 09:48:23 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1641116

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of employees in each regional centre of the Criminal Investigations Unit of HMRC have declared their ethnic origin as Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic.
tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
tabling member printed	Sir Graham Brady
uin	187046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>HMRC requests that staff voluntarily and confidentially record their ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, gender identity and carer details.</p><p> </p><p>The recording of diversity information is not mandatory, but we ask all HMRC employees to consider the reasons why diversity information is important for individuals and the Organisation.</p><p> </p><p>As a responsible employer, HMRC need to make sure that their policies and procedures do not discriminate against any particular group.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC do not publish the information in the form requested. The ethnicity data that HMRC do publish is available in the Public Sector Equality Duty annual compliance report <em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-compliance-with-the-public-sector-equality-duties-2021-to-2022/hmrc-public-sector-equality-duty-compliance-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">HMRC: Public Sector Equality Duty compliance 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></em> and in the Annual Report &amp; Accounts <em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">HMRC annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></em></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 14/06/2023 11:00:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady