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901317

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Royal Bank of Scotland on branch closures in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	142924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors, including RBS, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of ministerial and permanent secretary meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel</p><p> </p><p>RBS Group retains its own board which is responsible for commercial and operational decisions, including in relation to its branch network. The Government’s shareholding in RBS Group is managed at arm's length and on a commercial basis through UK Financial Investments Ltd, a company which is wholly owned by the Government.</p><p> </p><p>How banks choose to provide their services is a commercial matter, and the Government does not intervene in those decisions. However, the impact of closures on communities must be understood, considered and mitigated, where possible.</p><p> </p><p>Government supports the industry’s Access to Banking Standard, launched in May 2017, which commits banks to ensure personal and business customers are better informed about branch closures and the reasons for them closing, along with the options they have locally to continue to access banking services. The Access to Banking Standard is monitored and enforced by the independent Lending Standards Board.</p><p> </p><p>Government also supports the Post Office’s banking framework agreement which enables 99% of personal and 95% of banks’ business customers to conduct their everyday banking services at a Post Office counter via its network of 11,600 branches. In March, in response to my request, the Post Office and UK Finance committed to joint work to raise public awareness of the banking services available at the Post Office for individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 142925 question first answered 17/05/2018 10:08:21 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

901319

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with representatives of the Royal Bank of Scotland on reductions in mobile banking services in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	142925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors, including RBS, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of ministerial and permanent secretary meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel</p><p> </p><p>RBS Group retains its own board which is responsible for commercial and operational decisions, including in relation to its branch network. The Government’s shareholding in RBS Group is managed at arm's length and on a commercial basis through UK Financial Investments Ltd, a company which is wholly owned by the Government.</p><p> </p><p>How banks choose to provide their services is a commercial matter, and the Government does not intervene in those decisions. However, the impact of closures on communities must be understood, considered and mitigated, where possible.</p><p> </p><p>Government supports the industry’s Access to Banking Standard, launched in May 2017, which commits banks to ensure personal and business customers are better informed about branch closures and the reasons for them closing, along with the options they have locally to continue to access banking services. The Access to Banking Standard is monitored and enforced by the independent Lending Standards Board.</p><p> </p><p>Government also supports the Post Office’s banking framework agreement which enables 99% of personal and 95% of banks’ business customers to conduct their everyday banking services at a Post Office counter via its network of 11,600 branches. In March, in response to my request, the Post Office and UK Finance committed to joint work to raise public awareness of the banking services available at the Post Office for individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 142924 question first answered 17/05/2018 10:08:21 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

901342

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Benefit: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to allow low income families to continue claiming child benefit if their child undertakes an apprenticeship.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	142930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit support parents with the extra costs of raising a child. Both are payable for children until 31st August following their 16th birthday. After this, the young person must satisfy additional conditions: they must remain in full-time, non-advanced education up to and including A-level/GNVQ level 3, or equivalent, or they must be undertaking a course of approved training. If a young person is undertaking a paid apprenticeship, or they are in training or education by virtue of a contract of employment, the family is no longer eligible.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 142931 question first answered 16/05/2018 13:13:20 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

901343

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credits: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to make low income families eligible for child tax credits if their child undertakes an apprenticeship.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	142931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit support parents with the extra costs of raising a child. Both are payable for children until 31st August following their 16th birthday. After this, the young person must satisfy additional conditions: they must remain in full-time, non-advanced education up to and including A-level/GNVQ level 3, or equivalent, or they must be undertaking a course of approved training. If a young person is undertaking a paid apprenticeship, or they are in training or education by virtue of a contract of employment, the family is no longer eligible.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 142930 question first answered 16/05/2018 13:13:20 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

901380

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 27 April 2018 to Question 137634, on Children: Day Care, whether support costs will be included as part of the £6bn spend on childcare in 2020.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	142906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>By 2019-20 we will be spending a record £6 billion on childcare support. The IT and call centre costs referred to in my answer to question 137634 are not included within this figure.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 15/05/2018 13:47:45 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

901381

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 27 April 2018 to Question 137634, on 137634, what was the total amount his Department planned to spend on support costs for policies related to childcare and early education in the financial year 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	142907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The Childcare Service is an integrated digital service through which parents can apply for Tax-Free Childcare and 30 hours free childcare in a single application. As the costs of one application can be associated with both policies, there is not a clear distinction between the operating costs of each. In 2017-18, HMRC met just under £29 million of the total costs, and DfE £8 million.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 15/05/2018 16:14:02 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

901389

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Economic Secretary to the Treasury of 10 March 2018, Official Report, column 978, what compensation he proposes be provided to the small business customers of Royal Bank of Scotland who were subject to inappropriate behaviour by that company.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	142837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>In November 2016 the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) established a complaints process for small and medium-sized enterprises in their Global Restructuring Group (GRG) between 2008-2013, overseen by an independent third party, and took the decision to automatically refund complex fees paid by relevant customers to GRG during that period. RBS have set aside £400m for this scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Following a meeting with the Chief Executive of RBS I received a letter on 9 May stating that RBS have also committed to setting up an independent appeal process for consequential loss claims under the redress scheme.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 15/05/2018 13:44:25 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

901421

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Rebates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to combat tax refund scams.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL7748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The most common form of tax refund scam involves criminals abusing HMRC’s brand by trying to make it look like an email or text has come from HMRC. HMRC has dedicated Customer Protection teams within their Cyber Security Command Centres to combat Phishing (email) and SMiShing (texting) attacks, including those offering spurious tax refunds. They use a range of proactive and reactive techniques to identify and challenge online scams in order to reduce harm to the public.</p><p> </p><p>In the last year, the teams above have identified over 14,000 malicious HMRC-related websites and requested their removal. HMRC also challenge the ownership of misleading sites through formal internet dispute resolution governance. That work has resulted in over 2 million visits to potentially misleading sites being redirected to gov.uk education pages.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC works closely with other government departments and with industry to continue to develop controls to combat tax refund scams.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 23/05/2018 11:38:42 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

901431

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Customs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the feasibility of implementing each of the customs models set out in the Customs White Paper by the end of the transition period.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL7758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The UK and the EU have reached agreement on the terms of an implementation period that will start on 30 March 2019 and last until 31 December 2020. At the end of the implementation period, there will be a customs, VAT and excise system that enables trade to flow, HMRC to collect revenues, and the UK to have a secure border. Future customs arrangements are subject to negotiation with the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 23/05/2018 11:36:56 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

901432

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Customs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost to business of implementing the New Customs Partnership model.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL7759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The costs to businesses of implementing the model would depend on the details agreed as part of the negotiations.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 23/05/2018 11:37:17 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering