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1488706

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates
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 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy about the operation of the business rates system; and if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits for businesses of a reform of the business rates system.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	36038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The Final Report of the Business Rates Review was published at Autumn Budget 2021. The report reaffirms the importance of business rates for raising revenue for essential local services and announces a package of changes worth £7 billion over the next 5 years.</p><p> </p><p>The review has implemented significant new measures to reduce the burden of business rates on firms, including a freeze in the multiplier, new support for improvements and green technology, and further relief for high street businesses. The Government is committing to more frequent revaluations, which represents significant reform of the system and will ensure that liabilities are more responsive to changing market conditions. This addresses a key ask of stakeholders for more frequent revaluations, and to reduce the burden of business rates to make the system fairer.</p><p> </p><p>As with all elements of tax policy, the Government keeps this under review.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/07/2022 15:05:46 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1488736

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Fuels
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 impact of the removal of the red diesel fuel entitlement and rising costs of fuel on small businesses; and if he will make it his policy to reinstate the entitlement for landscaping contractors.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	35899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government confirmed at Spring Budget 2021 that it would remove the entitlement to use red diesel from most sectors from April 2022.</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 on the expected impact of these tax changes and make sure it had not overlooked any exceptional reasons why other sectors should be allowed to continue to use red diesel beyond April 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Having assessed the cases made by other sectors to retain their red diesel entitlement, including the landscaping industry, the Government did not believe that they were compelling enough to outweigh the need to ensure fairness between the different users of diesel fuels and the Government’s long-term environmental objectives.</p><p> </p><p>In response to high fuel prices, the Government announced a temporary 12-month cut to the duty on petrol and diesel of 5p per litre and an equivalent percentage cut on the rates for rebated fuels. Overall, this is a tax cut for consumers, including small businesses, worth around £2.4 billion in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 18/07/2022 14:09:10 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1488809

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Repayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2022 to Question 26810 on Revenue and Customs Repayments, what the average time taken is for HMRC to process repayments claimed through a self assessment tax return in the latest period for which data is available; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	36023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>Repayment times vary from case to case depending on individual circumstances. All repayments go through security checks, and the vast majority pass them, and they will then be issued within 10 days. Only cases that fail them will take longer to process.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 21/07/2022 13:05:38 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1488834

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Special Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any special advisers have had their contracts with his Department terminated since 4 July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	35903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>HM Treasury does not employ any special advisers; all special advisers are employed by Cabinet Office.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 18/07/2022 11:03:05 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1488871

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cheques
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 level of demand for use cheques as payment amongst (a) businesses and (b) charities.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	36125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>Cheques remain an important part of the UK’s payments landscape. While there has been a decline in overall cheque volumes, they continue to be used by many individuals, businesses, charities, and other voluntary organisations. HM Treasury does not currently have plans to undertake a formal assessment of cheque volumes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 19/07/2022 13:15:50 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1488901

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	35853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The air travel spend for HMT in each calendar year respectively is as follows: 2020: £343,886.61, 2021: £126,748.95 and 2022: £332,222.72. We are unable to provide the split between Ministers and Officials as the information is not held in that format in our systems.</p><p> </p><p>However, Ministers international commercial air travel is captured in departmental quarterly transparency returns and published on gov.uk at the following location: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transparency-data-hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel-1-april-to-30-june-2021" target="_blank">Transparency data HMT ministers' meetings, hospitality, gifts and overseas travel: 1 April to 30 June 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 21/07/2022 07:06:06 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1488920

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fuels: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on taking steps to help ensure that long-term fuel prices do not contribute to inflation.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	35987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>To date, higher inflation has been pushed up by global pressures, such as the economic recovery from Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As a result, supply chain bottlenecks and restricted access to oil has increased the cost of fuel.</p><p> </p><p>At Spring Statement 2022 in response to high fuel prices, the government announced a temporary 12-month cut to duty on petrol and diesel of 5p per litre. This is the largest cash-terms cut across all fuel duty rates at once, ever, and is only the second time in 20 years that main rates of petrol and diesel have been cut. This cut represents savings for households and businesses worth around £2.4 billion in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 19/07/2022 13:10:32 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1488978

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Horizon Europe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on replacing funds that may be lost as a result of disaffiliating from Horizon Europe.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	35941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The UK stands ready to formalise our association to EU programmes at the earliest opportunity. However, the EU’s delays to the UK’s association are putting long term science collaboration at risk. Supporting the UK’s research and development sector through this period of uncertainty remains our top priority.</p><p> </p><p>In order to provide reassurance, the UK Government has guaranteed funding for the first and second waves of eligible successful applicants to Horizon Europe. And if the UK is unable to associate to Horizon Europe we will put in place an ambitious alternative, including a suite of transitional measures, funded from the budget set aside for our association to these programmes.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 18/07/2022 11:00:18 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1488982

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Apprentices: STEM Subjects
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the review of the Apprenticeships Levy, whether he has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on (a) increasing the uptake and (b) improving the quality of apprenticeships in STEM.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	35942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>As part of the Spring Statement, the government committed to considering whether further intervention is needed to encourage employers to offer the high-quality employee training the UK needs. This will include examining whether the current tax system – including the operation of the Apprenticeship Levy – is doing enough to incentivise businesses to invest in the right kinds of training. There will not be a formal review of the Apprenticeship Levy or system.</p><p> </p><p>As an employer-led offer, employers can choose how many apprentices to take on, what standards they offer, and which training provider to use. Combined with the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy, the government has created hypothecated funds to support employer investment in the high-quality training an apprenticeship can deliver. Where these funds are not spent by levy payers, they are allocated to non-levy paying employers who receive support for 95% of the cost of high-quality apprenticeship training.</p><p> </p><p>There are over 340 apprenticeship standards that are closely linked to STEM occupations in sectors including Construction, Engineering and Manufacturing, and ICT. In Academic Year 2020/21, there were 78,100 apprenticeship starts in STEM, making up 24% of all apprenticeship starts that year. Popular STEM standards included Level 3 Engineering Technician (5,401 starts) and Level 4 Data Analyst (3,717 starts).</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 21/07/2022 09:27:27 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1489013

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Ministerial Changes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish all emails from the Department's Permanent Secretary to departmental staff informing them of the appointment of a new Chancellor.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	36083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>On the appointment of a new Secretary of State, the Permanent Secretary will generally inform staff of the appointment, noting the continuation of the department’s key business – while outlining any changes to portfolios or responsibilities.</p><p> </p><p>Information on all departments’ ministerial appointments, and portfolios, is already available in the public domain.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 21/07/2022 07:01:05 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi