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758053

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Cultural Heritage: Capital Taxes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff of HM Revenue and Customs are employed in monitoring whether undertakings in respect of public access to heritage assets that have been exempted from inheritance tax and capital gains tax are adhered to.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	9294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text The estimated cost of the inheritance tax exemption for heritage assets can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs</a> The cost of the capital gains tax exemption for heritage assets is not available.<p> </p><p>The legislation was introduced to protect national heritage assets. Where there has been a failure to meet the undertakings, HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) approach is to work with owners in order to put things right. It has not in the last 10 years been necessary for HMRC to remove an exemption.</p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out the number of exemptions (by claim) granted in each year for the categories listed within the legislation over the last ten years:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Pre-eminent objects s.31(1)(a)IHTA and (aa)</p></td><td><p>Land s.31(1)(b)IHTA</p></td><td><p>Buildings &amp; amenity land s.31(1)(c) and (d) IHTA</p></td><td><p>Historically associated objects s.31(1)(e)IHTA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Sixteen people within HMRC are involved in ensuring undertakings are adhered to.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9162 9165 question first answered 11/09/2017 15:57:28 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

758054

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Government plans to ratify the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	9241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>A Command Paper setting out the UK’s plans to ratify the World Health Organisation Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products will be laid before Parliament once legislation to implement the Protocol has been approved by Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>While the UK already has many of the Protocol’s requirements in place, the requirement to license tobacco manufacturing machinery has not yet been implemented. Legislation to accomplish this is currently before Parliament in the Finance Bill.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones grouped question UIN 9195 question first answered 15/09/2017 11:00:36 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

758056

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2017 to HL1074, whether the estimates for average employer pension contributions used in the table given in that Answer were based on (a) all public sector and private sector employees or (b) public sector and private sector employees who are enrolled in a pension scheme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	9207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>This analysis was conducted by HM Treasury based on data from the ONS’s Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. Further information regarding the data on which the calculation is based can be found here <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/methodologies/annualsurveyofhoursandearningsashemethodologyandguidance" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/methodologies/annualsurveyofhoursandearningsashemethodologyandguidance</a></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/09/2017 13:03:26 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

758057

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to section 8 of his Department's Civil Service Pay Guidance 2017-18, published on 27 April 2017, what recruitment and retention-related pay flexibilities have been granted since 2012 for (a) non-consolidated performance related pay pot adjustments and (b) targeted consolidated increases; and to which core departments and non-departmental public bodies those flexibilities have been granted.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	9209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>Comprehensive information is not held centrally. Departments will hold specific information about their own pay arrangements.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 15/09/2017 10:52:21 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

757390

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will respond to the recommendations of the Citizens Advice Bureau report, Stuck in Debt, on forcing lenders to scrap unarranged overdraft fees, prohibiting lenders from increasing a credit limit without a customer's permission, offering financial advice and making debt plans legally enforceable.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	8519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling the causes of problem debt, and is aware of the Citizens Advice report, although it is not the practice to respond directly to such reports.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has fundamentally reformed regulation of the consumer credit market, transferring regulatory responsibility from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on 1 April 2014. This more robust regulatory system is delivering the Government’s vision for a well-functioning and sustainable consumer credit market which is able to meet consumers’ needs.</p><p> </p><p>Since the transfer, the FCA has taken a proactive approach on consumer credit, including overdrafts, to ensure that all consumers who use high-cost credit products are treated fairly. As a result of its Credit Card Market Study, the FCA has also taken action to tackle persistent debt in the credit card market. As part of this, the industry has also developed a voluntary agreement to give greater control to customers and to restrict offers of credit limit increases.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also believes that consumers need free at the point of use help with their finances. In the Queen’s Speech, the Government announced the Financial Guidance and Claims Bill. This will legislate to restructure the financial guidance landscape and bring debt advice, money guidance, and pensions guidance together in a single body, and give consumers better access to the financial information they need. This Bill is currently going through Parliament.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/09/2017 15:00:44 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

757392

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to reduce levels of unsecured debt.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	8523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The government established an independent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Policy_Committee" target="_blank">Financial Policy Committee</a> (FPC), giving the FPC a primary objective to identify, monitor and take action to remove or reduce systemic risks with a view to protecting and enhancing financial stability. The FPC’s June 2017 Financial Stability Report (FSR), published on 27 June, assesses recent trends in unsecured debt in the consumer credit market. The FSR notes that consumer credit has been growing rapidly, but that loss rates on consumer credit lending are low at present. The June FSR announced that the FPC will: bring forward its assessment of stressed losses on consumer credit lending in the Bank’s 2017 annual stress test; and support the Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority in their intention to publish their expectations of lenders in the consumer credit market.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/09/2017 15:09:27 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

757396

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing Barnett formula funding for Wales in line with the recent increase in funding for Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	8645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Barnett Formula determines changes to each devolved administration’s funding with reference to changes in DEL funding for UK government departments. There was no change in DEL funding for UK government departments as a result of the financial support announced for Northern Ireland in June 2017.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/09/2017 12:59:13 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

757539

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department has paid from the public purse in compensation for errors relating to (a) tax-free and (b) 30 hours of free childcare; and what estimate he has made of how much will be paid out in total for such errors.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	8693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>As of 31<sup>st</sup> August HMRC has paid £3,335.20 in compensation to customers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/09/2017 13:01:35 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

757540

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Historic Buildings: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Heritage Maintenance Funds; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	8700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises the cultural and economic contribution historic homes make right across the UK. Heritage Maintenance Funds play an important role in keeping historic homes in the best possible condition and making them accessible for the general public. That is why assets placed in Heritage Maintenance Funds continue to receive a complete exemption from inheritance tax.</p><p> </p><p>The Treasury regularly monitors all reliefs and exemptions, including Heritage Maintenance Funds, to ensure they continue to be appropriate and affordable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/09/2017 16:04:46 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

757541

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many potentially eligible parents were unable to access their eligibility codes for their 30 hours of free childcare due to technical issues with the site administered by HM Revenue and Customs.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	8694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Parents who reported technical issues during the application process were provided with a 30 hours code manually. Those parents who are eligible, and applied before 31 August will be given a code that will allow them to access 30 hours free childcare for the September term.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/09/2017 11:38:20 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin