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1348297

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Imports: Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how long on average imported goods are taking to clear customs checks; and what assessment he has made of trends in the time taken for imported goods to clear customs since January 2021.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	35879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government’s priority is to keep goods moving and avoid delays at the border. HMRC use a risk based, intelligence-led response to compliance issues working alongside Border Force.</p><p>There are a number of different customs checks which could take place, and the time required for a check will vary significantly based on:</p><ul><li>The type of check required;</li><li>The nature of the import and the associated risk;</li><li>The type and quantity of goods examined;</li><li>The amount of time a trader or their agent takes to provide information at points in the process.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The information requested is therefore not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC have not carried out an assessment of trends in the time taken for goods to clear customs.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has put in place a number of measures to facilitate trade with the EU and to avoid disruption at ports, including publishing comprehensive guidance on the new arrangements for trade with the EU and operating a staged approach to customs controls in Great Britain. Until 31 December 2021 most traders importing non-controlled goods from the EU can make a simplified declaration in their own records and defer making a customs declaration to HMRC for 175 days. Further information can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/delaying-declarations-for-eu-goods-brought-into-great-britain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/delaying-declarations-for-eu-goods-brought-into-great-britain</a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 27/07/2021 10:47:03 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1232937

registered interest
date	09/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many members of staff in their Department have one or more of the words equality, diversity, inclusion, gender, LGBT or race in their job title.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	87650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2020 answer text <p>HM Treasury have three job titles that include diversity, inclusion and race. Currently there are 5 staff matching with one of the three Job Titles below:-</p><p>Diversity and Inclusion Manager</p><p>Diversity lead Let's Talk About Race project</p><p>Head of Diversity &amp; Inclusion</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 17/09/2020 11:20:34 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1232024

registered interest
date	07/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Department spent on unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	86148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2020 answer text <p>The information requested on spend is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, there is unconscious bias training available to all staff, at no cost to the department, via Civil Service learning.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 15/09/2020 12:20:31 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1230123

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many members of staff in his Department have either equality, diversity or inclusion in their job title.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	83940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2020 answer text <p>HM Treasury have three job titles that include equality, diversity or inclusion and currently there are 5 staff matching with one of the three Job Titles below:-</p><p>Diversity and Inclusion Manager</p><p>Diversity Lead, Projects</p><p>Head of Diversity and Inclusion</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 04/09/2020 14:02:12 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1226769

registered interest
date	21/07/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in his Department have undertaken unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	77790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2020 answer text <p>The Treasury does not hold the data in the form requested and only retains records for staff completing unconscious bias training who still work at the organisation. These records do not capture either staff who attend unconscious bias training as part of their induction (which includes all staff below SCS who have joined the organisation since 2016, and SCS since 2018). The figures we hold will therefore be an underestimate – but they show the following attendance for staff who are still working in the organisation:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020 (up to 5 August)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of staff trained</strong></p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>277</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>453</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>1071</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 04/09/2020 12:17:38 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1138411

registered interest
date	11/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Economic Operator Registration and Identification numbers were held by UK firms in (a) December 2018 and (b) 23 June 2019.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	276289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2019 answer text <p>In December 2018, there were 431,553 active UK Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) numbers. Since December 2018, HM Revenue &amp; Customs have issued approximately 74,000 new UK EORI numbers, up to 23 June.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/07/2019 12:53:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1137588

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	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many UK businesses have obtained an EORI number in each month of 2019; and what estimate he has made of the number of businesses with an EORI number (a) currently, (b) one year ago, (c) three years ago and (b) five years ago.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	274653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>Since December 2018 HM Revenue &amp; Customs have issued approximately 74,000 new UK Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) numbers, up to 23 June. The reporting for UK EORI numbers is not done on a monthly basis so a monthly breakdown for EORI numbers issued is not available. The historical information on EORI numbers is not readily accessible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/07/2019 08:40:07 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1137592

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	UK Trade with EU: Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of customs declarations which will be made by the 240,000 UK businesses that trade only with the EU and will need to interact with customs processes for the first time in the event that they continue to trade with the EU and (b) average number of those declarations per business.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	274656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>The customs declaration administrative burden is not available for the 240,000 businesses only. The burden is calculated using a segmentation analysis, to look at the new declarations and costs for five different groups of businesses, differentiated by their trade volumes and use of intermediaries.</p><p> </p><p>This segmentation does not explicitly differentiate EU-only traders, and an estimate is not readily available. More detail on increased customs declarations in a no deal scenario can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-impact-assessment-for-the-movement-of-goods-if-the-uk-leaves-the-eu-without-a-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-impact-assessment-for-the-movement-of-goods-if-the-uk-leaves-the-eu-without-a-deal</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/07/2019 13:50:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1137594

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	UK Trade with EU: Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) HMRC analysis underpinning its estimate that in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal the administrative burden on businesses from customs declarations on 2016 UK-EU trade in goods will be £13 billion and (b) the estimated number of additional customs declarations underpinning that figure.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	274657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-impact-assessment-for-the-movement-of-goods-if-the-uk-leaves-the-eu-without-a-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-impact-assessment-for-the-movement-of-goods-if-the-uk-leaves-the-eu-without-a-deal</a>, in Section C.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/07/2019 14:49:53 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1121424

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the £1,000 work allowance increase announced in Budget 2018.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	244182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The £1,000 increase to the Universal Credit (UC) work allowance, announced in Budget 2018, will increase the amount that 2.4 million households can earn before their UC begins to be withdrawn. This change will enable working parents and people with disabilities on Universal Credit to keep over £630 extra income each year. The Budget 2018 work allowance change increased government support for UC by £1.7bn per year by 2023-24. No assessment has been made of the cost of a further £1,000 increase in the work allowances over and above those which were increased in Budget 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury’s distributional analysis, published alongside Budget 2018, shows the cumulative effect on household incomes of policies on welfare, tax, and public service spending measures. Because different measures often interact with each other, this cumulative assessment provides the best representation of the overall intended policy effect. This shows that since this Chancellor and Prime Minister took office, their decisions have benefited households throughout the income distribution, with the poorest households gaining the most as a percentage of net income.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 244183 244184 244185 question first answered 29/04/2019 12:48:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien