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1648200

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Companies: Inflation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the finding in the Bank for International Settlements' Annual Economic Report, published in June 2023, that firms are now more reluctant to accept profit squeezes and will pass on cost pressures to prices more readily, if he will take steps to reduce the potential impact of corporate profit on levels of inflation.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	191402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>UK inflation has been affected by global factors, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affecting energy and food prices. The UK is not alone in facing these challenges, advanced economies across the world are feeling the impact of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>That is why halving inflation is one of the Prime Minister’s top priorities. Evidence that corporate profits play a role is inconclusive. The independent Competition and Markets Authority have authority to intervene if they find evidence of anti-competitive conduct or competition law is breached.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith grouped question UIN 191242 191243 191403 191404 191405 question first answered 04/07/2023 11:05:42 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1648201

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Companies: Inflation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the finding in the Bank for International Settlements' Annual Economic Report, published in June 2023, that some catch-up in wages would be compatible with inflation returning to target if firms accept a reduction in profits, if he will take steps to reduce the potential impact of corporate profit on levels of inflation.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	191403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>UK inflation has been affected by global factors, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affecting energy and food prices. The UK is not alone in facing these challenges, advanced economies across the world are feeling the impact of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>That is why halving inflation is one of the Prime Minister’s top priorities. Evidence that corporate profits play a role is inconclusive. The independent Competition and Markets Authority have authority to intervene if they find evidence of anti-competitive conduct or competition law is breached.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith grouped question UIN 191242 191243 191402 191404 191405 question first answered 04/07/2023 11:05:43 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1648202

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Companies: Inflation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the finding in the International Monetary Fund working paper entitled Euro Area Inflation after the Pandemic and Energy Shock: Import Prices, Profits and Wages, published in June 2023, that (a) domestic profits account for around 45 per cent and (b) labour costs account for around 25 per cent of inflation in the Euro area, if he will take steps to reduce the potential impact of corporate profit on levels of inflation.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	191404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>UK inflation has been affected by global factors, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affecting energy and food prices. The UK is not alone in facing these challenges, advanced economies across the world are feeling the impact of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>That is why halving inflation is one of the Prime Minister’s top priorities. Evidence that corporate profits play a role is inconclusive. The independent Competition and Markets Authority have authority to intervene if they find evidence of anti-competitive conduct or competition law is breached.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith grouped question UIN 191242 191243 191402 191403 191405 question first answered 04/07/2023 11:05:43 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1648203

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 6 of the Working Paper by the International Monetary Fund entitled Euro Area Inflation after the Pandemic and Energy Shock: Import Prices, Profits and Wages, published June 2023, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the analysis by the Fund of the potential effect of the level of corporate profits on real wages; and if he will take steps to limit the potential inflationary impact of corporate profits on wage growth.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	191405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>UK inflation has been affected by global factors, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affecting energy and food prices. The UK is not alone in facing these challenges, advanced economies across the world are feeling the impact of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>That is why halving inflation is one of the Prime Minister’s top priorities. Evidence that corporate profits play a role is inconclusive. The independent Competition and Markets Authority have authority to intervene if they find evidence of anti-competitive conduct or competition law is breached.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith grouped question UIN 191242 191243 191402 191403 191404 question first answered 04/07/2023 11:05:43 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1647922

registered interest
date	26/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Companies: Inflation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of levels of (a) corporate profit, (b) share dividends and (c) share buybacks on inflation.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	191242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>UK inflation has been affected by global factors, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affecting energy and food prices. The UK is not alone in facing these challenges, advanced economies across the world are feeling the impact of inflation.</p><p> </p><p>That is why halving inflation is one of the Prime Minister’s top priorities. Evidence that corporate profits play a role is inconclusive. The independent Competition and Markets Authority have authority to intervene if they find evidence of anti-competitive conduct or competition law is breached.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith grouped question UIN 191243 191402 191403 191404 191405 question first answered 04/07/2023 11:05:43 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1006855

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Kweku Adoboli
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which year was Kwenku Adoboli last resident in Ghana.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	191242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not comment on individual cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 191243 191244 191245 question first answered 21/11/2018 17:31:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1006857

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Kweku Adoboli
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for (a) how many months and (b) in which years was Kweku Adoboli resident in Ghana.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	191244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not comment on individual cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 191242 191243 191245 question first answered 21/11/2018 17:31:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1006858

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Kweku Adoboli
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, at what age and in which year did Kweku Aboboli start his residency in the United Kingdom.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	191245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not comment on individual cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 191242 191243 191244 question first answered 21/11/2018 17:31:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

42333

registered interest
date	10/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department undertook (a) an impact assessment and (b) consultation with deaf and deafblind users of Access to Work, their representative organisations and with employers prior to the implementation of Access to Work funding limitations for the provision of communication support for deaf and deafblind people in the workplace.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
uin	191236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Access to Work supports employed people with all types of disability; the budget is not allocated to particular disability groups in advance of applications. Existing policies on the cost effective funding of full time support workers are being enforced to ensure the programme remains available for new applicants.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work supports employed people with all types of disability; the budget is not allocated to particular disability groups in advance of applications. Existing policies on the cost effective funding of full time support workers are being enforced to ensure the programme remains available for new applicants.</p><p> </p><p>There are no quotas applied to customer numbers or funding for particular disability groups.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently a small number of investigations where charges have been made and are due to be heard in court over the summer months. We continue to monitor the system for abuse.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that DWP only has information based on Primary Disability type. Therefore total spend on hearing impaired customers is shown below, this includes other Access to Work support. However spend relating to Deafblind customers is not available from our records.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Department of Work and Pensions - Access To Work (</strong><strong>ATW</strong><strong>)</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of people helped with hearing impairments</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount spent on Hearing impairment £M</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total ATW customers</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total ATW spend £M</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09 </p></td><td><p> 4,950 </p></td><td><p>21.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> 32,130 </p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10 </p></td><td><p> 5,450 </p></td><td><p>28.5</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> 37,280 </p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11 </p></td><td><p> 5,300 </p></td><td><p>32.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> 35,820 </p></td><td><p>107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12 </p></td><td><p> 4,960 </p></td><td><p>34.1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> 30,780 </p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13 </p></td><td><p> 5,250 </p></td><td><p>34.5</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> 31,460 </p></td><td><p>95.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 191235 191237 191238 191243 191253 191254 191255 191256 191257 191258 question first answered 17/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce

42334

registered interest
date	10/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consultation his Department undertook with deaf users of the Access to Work scheme and their representative groups prior to introducing recent restrictions on the funding available for communication support through that scheme; and what alternative cost-reduction measures his Department considered.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
uin	191235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Access to Work supports employed people with all types of disability; the budget is not allocated to particular disability groups in advance of applications. Existing policies on the cost effective funding of full time support workers are being enforced to ensure the programme remains available for new applicants.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work supports employed people with all types of disability; the budget is not allocated to particular disability groups in advance of applications. Existing policies on the cost effective funding of full time support workers are being enforced to ensure the programme remains available for new applicants.</p><p> </p><p>There are no quotas applied to customer numbers or funding for particular disability groups.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently a small number of investigations where charges have been made and are due to be heard in court over the summer months. We continue to monitor the system for abuse.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that DWP only has information based on Primary Disability type. Therefore total spend on hearing impaired customers is shown below, this includes other Access to Work support. However spend relating to Deafblind customers is not available from our records.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Department of Work and Pensions - Access To Work (</strong><strong>ATW</strong><strong>)</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of people helped with hearing impairments</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount spent on Hearing impairment £M</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total ATW customers</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total ATW spend £M</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09 </p></td><td><p> 4,950 </p></td><td><p>21.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> 32,130 </p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10 </p></td><td><p> 5,450 </p></td><td><p>28.5</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> 37,280 </p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11 </p></td><td><p> 5,300 </p></td><td><p>32.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> 35,820 </p></td><td><p>107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12 </p></td><td><p> 4,960 </p></td><td><p>34.1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> 30,780 </p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13 </p></td><td><p> 5,250 </p></td><td><p>34.5</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> 31,460 </p></td><td><p>95.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 191236 191237 191238 191243 191253 191254 191255 191256 191257 191258 question first answered 17/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce