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registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Overseas Loans: Republic of Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they have loaned to the Republic of Ireland during the past decade; and of those loans, (1) what capital has been repaid, and (2) how much interest has been received.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL11265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the most recent statutory report under section 2 of the Loans to Ireland Act 2010, which was laid in Parliament on 15 October 2018. The report shows that the outstanding principal is £3,226,960,000, with repayments due in tranches from 15 April 2019 until 26 March 2021. Interest payments have been paid twice-yearly since 15 December 2011 and payments received so far total £483,359,983.93. The government expects the loan to be repaid on time and in full.</p><p> </p><p>[1] The statutory report is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-under-section-2-of-the-loans-to-ireland-act-2010-1-april-2018-to-30-september-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-under-section-2-of-the-loans-to-ireland-act-2010-1-april-2018-to-30-september-2018</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/11/2018 15:45:58 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name Ireland_loan_statutory_report_September_2018_web.pdf title Loans to Ireland
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

990155

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Block Grant
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they consider that the annual block grant payments to the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland represent a subsidy from taxpayers in England or a transfer of the shares of national income due to those devolved administrations.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL10777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The devolved administrations' block grants are generally linked to changes in comparable spending by UK Government in devolved areas. This is achieved by means of the Barnett Formula and supports the principles underlying inter-administration financial relations including accountability, autonomy, transparency, economic efficiency, stability and predictability, discipline and consent. More information on HM Treasury’s policy on funding the devolved administrations is set out in the Statement of Funding Policy<strong>. </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 05/11/2018 12:50:56 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

968803

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether air passenger duty is applied to flights from Northern Ireland to other parts of the UK; and if so, what plans they have to introduce a rate of 0 per cent.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL10087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>Flights between regions of the UK are subject to the short haul rate of Air Passenger Duty. Under State aid rules, it is not possible to vary tax rates for domestic flights only.</p><p> </p><p>The government has made a number of reforms to reduce the effect of APD on consumers, including exempting children on economy flights. This could save a family of four £52 on a roundtrip within the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Like all taxes, Air Passenger Duty remains under review. In June we closed a call for evidence on ‘VAT, Air Passenger Duty and tourism in Northern Ireland’. It is the government’s intention to report at Budget.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 14/09/2018 13:35:00 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

806351

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Customs Officers: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether HM Revenue and Customs officers operate in Northern Ireland to detect illegal movements of (1) fuel, (2) tobacco, and (3) alcohol liquor, between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL4149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Yes - HMRC deploy a wide range of intervention measures to ensure that we effectively detect, deter and disrupt the most serious attacks on the tax system, wherever they take place. This includes HMRC Officers operating in Northern Ireland to detect and interdict illegal movements of fuel, tobacco and alcohol between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>Extensive multi-agency cooperation both with our partners in Northern Ireland and across borders is a key element of the operational response to fuel, tobacco and alcohol fraud together with other illicit trade between the UK and Ireland.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 21/12/2017 13:27:21 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

759030

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether release of the £1 billion allocated in connection with their confidence and supply agreement with the DUP is dependent upon the restoration of the executive at Stormont.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL1477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>We want to see the financial support for Northern Ireland decided upon and spent by a devolved government to benefit the whole community. It will be for the restored Northern Ireland Executive to determine how the additional funding is spent.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 20/09/2017 10:32:06 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

711583

registered interest
date	15/03/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Overseas Loans: Republic of Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the outstanding amount of the UK loan to the government of Ireland; how much interest on that loan has been paid to the UK by the government of Ireland; and when that loan will be paid off.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL6089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2017 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the most recent statutory report on the UK’s bilateral Loan to Ireland, which the Treasury provided to Parliament as required by Section 2 of the Loans to Ireland Act 2010. The last report was laid in Parliament on 13 October 2016 and is available in the Printed Paper Office<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>.</p><p> </p><p>This report shows the outstanding principal is £3,226,960,000, with repayments due in tranches from 15 April 2019 until 26 March 2021. An interest payment was made by the Republic of Ireland on 15 December 2016, and therefore the interest payments received now total £357,822,962.56.</p><p> </p><p>[1] The report is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-under-section-2-of-the-loans-to-ireland-act-2010-1-april-2016-to-30-september-2016</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 24/03/2017 11:14:07 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

479302

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the proposed freeze on duty for Scotch whisky and cider will also apply to Bushmills Whiskey and Armagh Cider in Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL7077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>Alcohol duty rates are applied in the same way across the UK. Budget 2016 froze the duty rates on spirits and on still and lower strength sparkling cider.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 01/04/2016 12:14:00 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

479303

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Block Grant: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their revised estimate for the reduction in block grant paid to the Northern Ireland Executive after the introduction of 17 per cent Corporation Tax in Great Britain and 12½ per cent Corporation Tax in Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL7078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>The government has legislated to introduce a Northern Ireland rate of corporation tax, so the Northern Ireland Executive must now press on with the reforms necessary to put its finances on the sustainable footing required to complete this process.</p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Executive block grant would then be reduced by the amount of tax revenues foregone by the government as a result of devolution (due to direct and behavioural effects). Alongside this, the Executive would retain all revenues from the NI rate of corporation tax.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s latest estimate of the impact on the Executive’s budget assumes that the NI corporation tax rate is set at 12.5% from April 2018, and also takes into account UK corporation tax main rates of 19% for the financial years 2018-19 and 2019-20 and 18% in 2020-21. On this basis, there is an estimated cost to the Executive in 2020-21 of £275m.</p><p> </p><p>These estimates will be updated in due course to take into account the government’s further reduction in corporation tax to 17%.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 01/04/2016 12:13:33 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

470613

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	VAT
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether levels of VAT in the UK can be reduced without the approval of the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL6960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>Member States have full autonomy over VAT within an agreed EU framework. Member States can apply a standard rate of VAT no lower than 15 per cent and apply a reduced rate of VAT no lower than 5 per cent.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 30/03/2016 15:03:14 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

439749

registered interest
date	22/12/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Loans: Republic of Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the amount of government loans to the Republic of Ireland during the past decade; of those loans, what capital has been re-paid; and how much interest has been received.
tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
uin	HL4802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2016 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the most recent statutory report which the Treasury provided to Parliament as required by Section 2 of the Loans to Ireland Act 2010. It was published on 15 October 2015 and is available online along with all previous reports submitted.<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></p><br /><p>This report shows the outstanding principal is £3,226,960,000, with repayments due in tranches from 15 April 2019 until 26 March 2021. An interest payment was made by the Republic of Ireland on 15 December 2015 and therefore the interest payments received now total £273,825,613.71.</p><br /><p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bilateral-loan-to-ireland" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bilateral-loan-to-ireland</a></p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 08/01/2016 14:01:34 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney