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771378

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
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 additional bureaucratic requirements that will be imposed on British businesses in the event that the UK leaves the Customs Union.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	107952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>One of the government’s key objectives for the UK’s future customs regime is to ensure that trade including that with the EU remains as frictionless as possible. At this stage the level of future facilitation at the border between the UK and the EU is unknown and subject to the outcome of negotiations. It is therefore not possible to weigh up the costs and benefits to business.</p><p> </p><p>The government is undertaking a comprehensive programme of analytical work to assess, across a range of scenarios on a sector by sector basis, the economic impacts of exiting the European Union, but this analysis is sensitive in the context of negotiations with the EU. As Parliament has agreed, it would not be appropriate to publish any such information that could damage our negotiating position.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/10/2017 13:13:39 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

771380

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the analyses the Government has undertaken on the effect of leaving the Customs Union on various sectors of the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	107891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The government is undertaking a comprehensive programme of analytical work to assess, across a range of scenarios on a sector by sector basis, the economic impacts of exiting the European Union. However, this analysis is sensitive in the context of negotiations with the European Union. We have committed to being as transparent as we can throughout the process of leaving the EU, but as Parliament has agreed, it would not be appropriate to publish any such information that could damage our negotiating position.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 24/10/2017 09:21:05 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

768866

registered interest
date	11/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Customs Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of new customs officials that will be required as a result of leaving the Customs Union; and what the estimated additional annual cost to the public purse will be of employing those officials.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	107210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>HMRC are considering the capacity of staff working in customs across government as part of their EU exit planning. The staffing levels and resources required by HMRC after the UK leaves the European Union will be dependent on the outcome of negotiations.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/10/2017 12:05:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

768867

registered interest
date	11/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Customs Declaration Services Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what contingency plans are in place in the event that the Customs Declaration Service is not fully operational before the UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	107229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The delivery of the new Customs Declaration Service (CDS) is on target, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) expects to meet its planned delivery date in January 2019. The progress of the programme is subject to rigorous and ongoing internal scrutiny.</p><p> </p><p>Nevertheless, HMRC has robust contingency arrangements in place, including:</p><p>- A transition process between August 2018 and January 2019 where traders will start moving to CDS.</p><p>- Dual-running of the existing Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) service with CDS.</p><p>- Ensuring CHIEF can handle larger volumes of declarations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/10/2017 11:49:27 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

768868

registered interest
date	11/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Customs Declaration Services Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the new Customs Declaration Service will be fully operational by January 2019; and whether it will have been fully tested to ensure that it is able to manage any increase in the volume of declarations associated with leaving the Customs Union.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	107226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The delivery of the new Customs Declaration Service (CDS) is on target, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) expects to meet its planned delivery date in January 2019. CDS is undergoing comprehensive testing to ensure that it can manage an increase in the volume of declarations. HMRC is following industry best practice in carrying out that work, by performance testing the individual software components first and gradually building up to test across the whole of the CDS system.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 20/10/2017 12:03:58 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

625858

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many citizens of non-UK EU countries work in his Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	51004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules. Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 07/11/2016 15:59:39 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417205

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for his Department and its agencies in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>Information on policy evaluations carried out by external organisations is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 15/09/2015 16:51:15 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417209

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Government Departments: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department and the Government Chief Scientific Adviser had with Departments in advance of decisions to cut departmental research budgets or expenditure since May 2010; and on what dates each such discussion took place with each such department.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials have regular meetings with departments in which a wide range of issues are discussed as part of the process of policy development. However we do not disclose details of confidential discussions between Ministers or advice received from civil servants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 11/09/2015 13:10:58 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417211

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Enterprise Zones: Job Creation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) examined on the effect of Enterprise Zones on investment and job creation in other neighbouring localities.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The 24 Enterprise Zones that have been established in England since 2012 had by December 2014 provided 18,949 jobs, attracted £2.2 billion of private investment, and attracted over 540 new businesses. We continue to review all available evidence on the efficacy and impact of Enterprise Zones, including from previous programmes in the United Kingdom and abroad.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 15/09/2015 13:22:24 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

386523

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	HM 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 Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking in response to the outcome of the Government's consultation on matching SMEs rejected for finance with alternative lenders.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	5017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government took powers in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 to require the UK’s major banks to offer SMEs they reject for finance the opportunity to be referred to Finance Platforms that can help match them with alternative finance providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government will lay Secondary Legislation implementing the policy before Parliament as soon as is practicable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 06/07/2015 15:27:07 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna