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1437713

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will delay the planned national insurance increase due to take place in April 2022 in response to the increase in fuel costs.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	134006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Levy will establish a long-term, sustainable source of revenue to give healthcare the extra funding needed to recover from the pandemic and to implement reform to social care as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>The increased spending takes immediate effect this year to deliver our ambitions to tackle the NHS electives backlog, which is why we cannot delay the introduction of the Levy. The Government is committed to responsible management of the public finances and it is important that this spending is fully funded, particularly in the context of record borrowing and debt, as a result of the economic response to COVID-19.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has announced a package of support to help households with rising energy bills, worth £9.1 billion in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/03/2022 17:48:23 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1437714

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Coronavirus
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 ensure that organisations that received covid-19 loans repay a fair amount of the funding they received.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	134007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>We have been clear from the outset that these are loans which must be repaid.</p><p> </p><p>In order to give businesses who have borrowed under the Bounce Back Loan Scheme further support and flexibility in making their repayments, the Chancellor announced “Pay as You Grow” (PAYG) options in September 2020. These give businesses the option to take a a six month full repayment holiday, and to extend their Bounce Back Loan repayments over ten years, reducing their average monthly repayments on the loan by almost half. Businesses also have the option to move to interest-only payments for periods of up to six months (an option which they can use up to three times).</p><p> </p><p>For those who borrowed under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), the Government has taken action to allow lenders to provide borrowers with more time to make their repayments where they assess that borrowers are in difficulty and will benefit from the extension.</p><p> </p><p>While it is too early to give a definitive view on the final level of payments, current levels of failure to repay are lower than some of the worst-case scenarios cited by critics: early data shows that businesses have made a positive start to repayments, with the significant majority of businesses meeting monthly repayments. A proportion of businesses have chosen to repay their loan in full already and current levels of distress amongst borrowers are relatively low.</p><p> </p><p>The latest publicly available data can be found here: https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/covid-19-emergency-loan-schemes-repayment-data/.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 14/03/2022 15:04:33 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1437715

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Prisons: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will allocate additional funding in Barnett consequentials to help ensure that prisons throughout the UK meet their obligations under UN guidelines.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	134008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>Responsibility for prisons is reserved in England and Wales. The UK Government has provided a £3.2 billion cash increase for the justice system over the Parliament to £11.5 billion in 2024-25, which includes a £3.8 billion investment in our prison building programme over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p>Responsibility for prisons is devolved to the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive. It is for the devolved administrations to decide how to allocate their funding across their devolved responsibilities.</p><p> </p><p>The 2021 Spending Review settlements were the largest since devolution. The Scottish Government is receiving an average of £4.6 billion per year through the Barnett formula on top of its £36.7 billion annual baseline and the Northern Ireland Executive is receiving an average of £1.6 billion through the Barnett formula on top of its £13.4 billion annual baseline.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 14/03/2022 11:08:16 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1437732

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Empty Property: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of charging empty high street properties additional business rates in the event that they do not allow local start-up businesses from utilising their space at a reduced cost.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	134056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>The business rates system ensures that the owners of most empty buildings pay 100 per cent of the business rates bill once the property has been unoccupied for three months, or six months for industrial buildings. This current structure strikes the right balance between not penalising landlords who lose a tenant at short notice, whilst incentivising property owners and landlords to secure new tenants.</p><p> </p><p>In the Levelling Up White Paper, the Government committed to going further in supporting places to tackle blight and reviving our high streets by exploring new powers for local authorities to require landlords to rent out long-term vacant properties to prospective tenants, such as local businesses or community groups.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/03/2022 17:39:25 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1437734

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Holiday Accommodation: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will enable local authorities to levy a tax on people staying on vacation in short term holiday lets, B&Bs, guest houses or hotels.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	134058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that the hospitality industry makes a vital contribution to the UK economy. The Government does not currently have plans to enable local authorities to levy a tax on accommodation for vacations. Tax is collected at a national level from holidaymakers staying in accommodation through the VAT system. Normally, a standard VAT rate of 20 per cent applies, however, a temporary reduced rate of 5 per cent was introduced on 15 July 2020 to support businesses in the hospitality and tourism sectors through the pandemic. As of 1 October 2021, this rate was raised to 12.5 per cent to taper support for businesses before the rate returns to 20 per cent VAT from 1 April 2022.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/03/2022 17:42:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1437750

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Defibrillators: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will remove VAT on purchases of defibrillators by individuals irrespective of where they are purchased in the UK.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	133946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government already maintains VAT reliefs to aid the purchase of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), including VAT relief on purchases made by local authorities and those made through voluntary contributions, where the AED is donated to eligible charities or the NHS. Otherwise, they attract the standard rate of VAT.</p><p>Any new VAT relief would come at a cost to the Exchequer and the Government has received over £50 billion worth of requests for relief from VAT since the EU referendum.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all taxes under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 08/03/2022 15:10:05 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1437776

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Red Diesel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will postpone restrictions on the use of red diesel from April 2022 in the context of recent and forthcoming increases in the cost of living.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	133947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2022 answer text <p>At Budget 2020 the Chancellor announced that the Government will remove the entitlement to use red diesel from most sectors from April 2022. This will more fairly reflect the negative environmental impact of the emissions they produce and help to ensure that the tax system incentivises the development and adoption of greener alternatives.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognised that this would be a significant change for some businesses and ran a consultation to gather information from affected users on the expected impact of these tax changes and make sure it had not overlooked any exceptional reasons why affected sectors should be allowed to continue to use red diesel beyond April 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Following the consultation, the Chancellor announced at Spring Budget 2021 that the Government will grant further entitlements to use red diesel after April 2022 for a limited number of users. However, having assessed the cases made by other sectors to retain their red diesel entitlement, the Government did not believe that they were compelling enough to outweigh the need to ensure fairness between the different users of diesel fuels, the Government’s long-term environmental objectives and the need for the tax system to incentivise the development of greener alternatives to polluting fuels.</p><p> </p><p>To support the development of alternatives that affected businesses can switch to, the Government is at least doubling the funding provided for energy innovation through the new £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. From that portfolio, the Government announced the £40 million Red Diesel Replacement Competition, which will provide grant funding for projects that develop and demonstrate lower carbon, lower cost alternatives to red diesel for the construction, and mining and quarrying sectors.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Spring Budget 2021, from 1 April 2021 until 31 March 2023, companies can also claim 130% first-year capital allowances on qualifying plant and machinery investments.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 08/03/2022 14:02:44 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1437780

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Health and Social Care Levy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the Question 129258 on Health and Social Care Levy, if he will publish all internal analysis carried out by (a) his Department and (b) HMRC which supports the statement in the Tax Information and Impact Note for the Health and Social Care Levy that there may be an impact on family formation, stability or breakdown as individuals, who are currently just about managing financially, will see their disposable income reduce.
tabling member constituency	Ealing North
tabling member printed	James Murray
uin	134094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2022 answer text <p>The announcement of the National Insurance contributions (NICs) increase in the 2022-23 tax year and the introduction of the Health and Social Care levy (HSCL) from 2023-24 onwards will impact 1.6 million employers. Businesses will face one-off costs to familiarise themselves with the changes and to update employee payroll records. The impacts on businesses can be found in the HSCL Tax information and Impact Note which was published by HMRC: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fhealth-and-social-care-levy%2Fhealth-and-social-care-levy&amp;data=04%7C01%7CBethany.Douce%40hmtreasury.gov.uk%7C32431d3cd5c04ca80c0108da00f54faf%7Ced1644c505e049e6bc39fcf7ac51c18c%7C0%7C0%7C637823351005286180%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=BhrktvuK%2BQxnpnF7AVMHqicg6Wgu0PMeovk%2FbsRzINo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-social-care-levy/health-and-social-care-levy</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Family Test assessments are not routinely published. Decisions on whether and how to publish complete Family Test assessments fall within the responsibility of each Government department.</p><p> </p><p>The announcement of the NICs increase in the 2022-23 tax year and the introduction of the HSCL from 2023-24 onwards was made ahead of the announcement of annual changes that payroll software providers make each year. It is expected that these changes will form part of the annual change process for software developers.</p><p> </p><p>An initial estimate of the cost for changes to HMRC’s IT systems and extra support staff was provided to Parliament by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 14 September 2021. The initial estimated cost was £40-50 million. A further estimate will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 134095 134096 134097 question first answered 08/03/2022 16:51:02 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4797 label Biography information for James Murray

1437800

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on social media advertising in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022 up to and including 28 February; and on which platforms that money was spent.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	133926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>For details on HM Treasury social media spend please see the following transparency data.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 14/03/2022 09:14:03 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1437811

registered interest
date	03/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Mortgages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 125543, on Mortgages, what estimate he has made of the total number of lifetime mortgage customers who could benefit from switching to plans on lower interest rates but have not yet done so.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	134093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>Lifetime mortgages are a form of equity release scheme which may be an appropriate option for some homeowners wishing to withdraw equity while remaining in their home. The interest rates charged on lifetime mortgage products are typically fixed for the duration of the loan term which provides certainty for borrowers.</p><p> </p><p>Whether it is in a consumer’s best interest to switch their lifetime mortgage plan will depend on their individual circumstances. As with any long-term financial product, we encourage borrowers to regularly consider their options, and they may wish to seek advice to ensure that any changes to their loan are appropriate for their individual circumstances. Borrowers should also be mindful of any factors, such as early repayment charges, that may affect their decision to switch.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 14/03/2022 15:08:11 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson