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1488213

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date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Foster Care: Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the level of income-tax exemption for foster carers was last revised in respect of care allowances; and if he will make a new adjustment to take account of the rising level of foster care allowances.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	34801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>Qualifying Care Relief (QCR) is a tax relief available to support foster carers, in addition to some other carers. QCR was first introduced as Foster Care Relief in 2003-04. This allowance is £10,000 per household per year, plus £250 per week per adult or child aged 11 or over (£200 for a child under 11).</p><p> </p><p>It is important to consider that the QCR operates in addition to other reliefs and allowances. Foster carers are also entitled to the Personal Allowance, which may be available to cover any foster care income above the QCR allowance. The Government has increased the Personal Allowance (PA) by over 40 per cent in real terms since 2010, ensuring some of the lowest earners do not pay income tax. The PA is the highest basic personal tax allowance of all countries in the G20, and it remains one of the most generous internationally.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all aspects of the tax system under review.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 15/07/2022 13:28:27 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1488362

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he is taking to mitigate against climate change.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	34962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is fully committed to achieving its net zero emissions targets under the Climate Change Act. The Net Zero Strategy sets out the Government’s plans to meet these targets, including on empowering the public and business to make green choices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Budget and Spending Review 2021 confirmed that since March 2021 the Government has committed a total of £30bn of domestic investment for the green industrial revolution.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside investment in green infrastructure set out in Spending Review 2021, the Government has also established the UK Infrastructure Bank with £22 billion of financial capacity to invest in infrastructure to help tackle climate change and to support regional and local economic growth across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Following the publication of the UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment earlier this year, the Government is now developing the third National Adaptation Programme, to be laid in Parliament in 2023, which will address the risks facing the UK from climate change. This work is led by the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs in consultation with relevant departments, including HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak grouped question UIN 34964 34965 34967 question first answered 15/07/2022 11:21:59 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1488365

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Climate Change: Infrastructure
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 invest in infrastructure to mitigate against climate change.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	34964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is fully committed to achieving its net zero emissions targets under the Climate Change Act. The Net Zero Strategy sets out the Government’s plans to meet these targets, including on empowering the public and business to make green choices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Budget and Spending Review 2021 confirmed that since March 2021 the Government has committed a total of £30bn of domestic investment for the green industrial revolution.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside investment in green infrastructure set out in Spending Review 2021, the Government has also established the UK Infrastructure Bank with £22 billion of financial capacity to invest in infrastructure to help tackle climate change and to support regional and local economic growth across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Following the publication of the UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment earlier this year, the Government is now developing the third National Adaptation Programme, to be laid in Parliament in 2023, which will address the risks facing the UK from climate change. This work is led by the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs in consultation with relevant departments, including HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak grouped question UIN 34962 34965 34967 question first answered 15/07/2022 11:21:59 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1488366

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take fiscal steps to support behaviour that mitigates against climate change.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	34965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is fully committed to achieving its net zero emissions targets under the Climate Change Act. The Net Zero Strategy sets out the Government’s plans to meet these targets, including on empowering the public and business to make green choices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Budget and Spending Review 2021 confirmed that since March 2021 the Government has committed a total of £30bn of domestic investment for the green industrial revolution.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside investment in green infrastructure set out in Spending Review 2021, the Government has also established the UK Infrastructure Bank with £22 billion of financial capacity to invest in infrastructure to help tackle climate change and to support regional and local economic growth across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Following the publication of the UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment earlier this year, the Government is now developing the third National Adaptation Programme, to be laid in Parliament in 2023, which will address the risks facing the UK from climate change. This work is led by the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs in consultation with relevant departments, including HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak grouped question UIN 34962 34964 34967 question first answered 15/07/2022 11:21:59 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1488368

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Water: Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the scale of investment needed to (a) prevent drought and (b) maintain adequate irrigation.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	34967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government is fully committed to achieving its net zero emissions targets under the Climate Change Act. The Net Zero Strategy sets out the Government’s plans to meet these targets, including on empowering the public and business to make green choices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Budget and Spending Review 2021 confirmed that since March 2021 the Government has committed a total of £30bn of domestic investment for the green industrial revolution.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside investment in green infrastructure set out in Spending Review 2021, the Government has also established the UK Infrastructure Bank with £22 billion of financial capacity to invest in infrastructure to help tackle climate change and to support regional and local economic growth across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Following the publication of the UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment earlier this year, the Government is now developing the third National Adaptation Programme, to be laid in Parliament in 2023, which will address the risks facing the UK from climate change. This work is led by the Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs in consultation with relevant departments, including HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak grouped question UIN 34962 34964 34965 question first answered 15/07/2022 11:21:59 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1488386

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fuels: Excise Duties and VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) reducing fuel duty and (b) cutting the rate of VAT on petrol and diesel.
tabling member constituency	Chippenham
tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
uin	35005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>The temporary 5p cut to duty on petrol and diesel represents a £2.4 billion tax cut in 2022-23, to help consumers with high fuel prices.</p><p> </p><p>VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. It would cost over £6 billion to cut VAT on road fuel from 20% to 5%.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all taxes under review.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak grouped question UIN 34915 question first answered 15/07/2022 11:10:51 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

1488418

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fuels: Excise Duties and VAT
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 merits of (a) lowering the rate of VAT on motor fuel for low paid workers and (b) abolishing fuel duty.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	34915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>The temporary 5p cut to duty on petrol and diesel represents a £2.4 billion tax cut in 2022-23, to help consumers with high fuel prices.</p><p> </p><p>VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. It would cost over £6 billion to cut VAT on road fuel from 20% to 5%.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all taxes under review.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak grouped question UIN 35005 question first answered 15/07/2022 11:10:51 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1488452

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) consultations and (b) calls for evidence issued by his Department are closed but have not been responded to as on 12 July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	34912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>All Government consultations and calls for evidence are published on gov.uk, which also provides an update on whether Government has responded to these.</p><p> </p><p>In this Parliament, we have identified 15 calls for evidence or consultations which are closed, but which Government has not yet responded to.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 15/07/2022 11:09:20 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1488453

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Annual Reports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when HMRC plans to publish its annual report and accounts for the financial year 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	34913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>HMRC designed the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), The Self Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and the Eat Out To Help Out Scheme (EOTHO) to prevent fraud and error, both in the eligibility criteria and the claim process itself whilst making sure the grant payments reached claimants as quickly as possible. HMRC also put in place a series of checks on claims before they were paid, so they blocked those that were highly indicative of criminal activity.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone who keeps grant money despite knowing they were not entitled to it, faces having to repay up to double the amount they received, plus interest and potentially criminal prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>At Spring Budget 2021 the Government announced a £100m investment into the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce. The taskforce was established to extend HMRC’s work to tackle fraud and error in the COVID support schemes that they administered (CJRS, SEISS and EOTHO). The taskforce does not address compliance risks in schemes that have been administered outside HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>Up to the end of March 2021, over 12,000 compliance checks had been carried out, this was prior to the formation of the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on the number of compliance checks carried out and taskforce performance for 21/22 is covered in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts (AR&amp;A) for 21/22 and will be published before recess.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC expects to publish its 2022-23 Annual Report &amp; Accounts in Summer 2023.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 34914 question first answered 15/07/2022 13:26:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1488454

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxpayer Protection Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many compliance checks the HMRC Taxpayer Protection Taskforce has carried out as of July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	34914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>HMRC designed the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), The Self Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and the Eat Out To Help Out Scheme (EOTHO) to prevent fraud and error, both in the eligibility criteria and the claim process itself whilst making sure the grant payments reached claimants as quickly as possible. HMRC also put in place a series of checks on claims before they were paid, so they blocked those that were highly indicative of criminal activity.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone who keeps grant money despite knowing they were not entitled to it, faces having to repay up to double the amount they received, plus interest and potentially criminal prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>At Spring Budget 2021 the Government announced a £100m investment into the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce. The taskforce was established to extend HMRC’s work to tackle fraud and error in the COVID support schemes that they administered (CJRS, SEISS and EOTHO). The taskforce does not address compliance risks in schemes that have been administered outside HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>Up to the end of March 2021, over 12,000 compliance checks had been carried out, this was prior to the formation of the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on the number of compliance checks carried out and taskforce performance for 21/22 is covered in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts (AR&amp;A) for 21/22 and will be published before recess.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC expects to publish its 2022-23 Annual Report &amp; Accounts in Summer 2023.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 34913 question first answered 15/07/2022 13:26:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves