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1455803

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Hospitality Industry: VAT
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assistance they are providing to UK hospitality businesses, especially small businesses, to help with (1) rising costs, and (2) the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, following their decision not extend the 12.5 per cent rate of VAT for hospitality.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL7508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2022 answer text <p>The government has already prioritised support for SMEs by cutting business rates by 50% for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure businesses, providing a 95% subsidy for apprenticeships, and supporting them to invest and grow by increasing the Annual Investment Allowance to £1 million. The Help to Grow scheme provides eligible SMEs with a 90% subsidy for world class management training and subsidises the cost of new software up to £5,000.</p><p> </p><p>The Spring Statement 2022 went further and cuts the cost of employment for half a million small businesses, by increasing the Employment Allowance from £4,000 to £5,000. This means that from April, 670,000 businesses will not pay NICs and the Health and Social Care Levy. In addition, to help businesses and consumers, the main rates of petrol and diesel duty will be cut by 5 pence per litre, the largest cash terms cut that has ever been applied to fuel duty rates at once.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 07/04/2022 14:50:30 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1455832

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commission the Office for Budget Responsibility to make an estimate of the amount of tax that will be raised from item 10 in the Spring Statement 2022, HMRC: investment in compliance; and if he will place a copy of that estimate in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	150146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>At Spring Statement 2022, the Office for Budget Responsibility estimated the total amount of tax that will be raised from ‘HMRC: investment in compliance’ to be £3,155 million between 2021-22 and 2026-27.</p><p> </p><p>Further information, including an annual breakdown of the Exchequer impact, can be found on page 13 of the Spring Statement 2022 policy costings document, available here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1062462%2FPolicy_Costings_Document_Spring_Statement_2022.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBethany.Douce%40hmtreasury.gov.uk%7Cc8294f7048f94625055a08da21f253a4%7Ced1644c505e049e6bc39fcf7ac51c18c%7C0%7C0%7C637859621905960042%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=bjfS%2BVoNYktRhkh1ZWgTwSzZunV3o0QM62oUVlb6Tss%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1062462/Policy_Costings_Document_Spring_Statement_2022.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/04/2022 13:59:05 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1455833

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Employees' Contributions and Income Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of an employee earning £25,000, how much (a) Income Tax and (b) National Insurance Contributions, they would be paying in each of 2021-22 and 2022-23, in both (i) nominal and (ii) 2021-22 prices; and if he will place a copy of the results of that calculation in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	150147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government does not routinely publish estimates of tax liability by income level, as it is dependent on an individual’s circumstances and can vary between people with the same annual incomes.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Spring Statement 2022, the increase in the starting thresholds of National Insurance contributions (NICs) will benefit almost 30 million working people. This is a tax cut worth over £330 a year, for a typical employee, from July 2022.</p><p> </p><p>From July 2022, around 70 per cent of workers who pay NICs will pay less NICs than they otherwise would have, even after accounting for the introduction of the Health and Social Care Levy.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/04/2022 14:00:42 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1455843

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-employment Income Support Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2022 to Question 127486 on Self-employment Income Support Scheme, if he will direct HMRC to accept payment arrangements under their Time to Pay policy which are longer than 12 months for people experiencing difficulties in paying income tax liable on self-employment grants.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	150271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>HMRC is working hard to help all taxpayers with temporary cash-flow issues, and to provide them with the support they need.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s longstanding Time to Pay policy allows taxpayers in temporary financial difficulty to schedule their tax debts into affordable and sustainable instalment arrangements with no maximum repayment period. However, HMRC will seek to take payment in the shortest period of time affordable for the taxpayer. These arrangements are flexible and can be amended if circumstances change.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, HMRC has a well-established Extra Support Service which is accessible by all taxpayers. HMRC customer service advisers have the skills to identify taxpayers who need extra help, to empathetically handle their queries, and make reasonable adjustments.</p><p> </p><p>Any taxpayer concerned about their ability to pay should contact HMRC to discuss the support available.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/04/2022 16:34:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1455875

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Banks: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to mitigate the effects of bank branch closures in Birmingham.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	150075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of appropriate access to banking. However, decisions on opening and closing branches are a commercial issue for banks and building societies.</p><p /><p>The largest banks and building societies have been signed up to the Access to Banking Standard since 2017, which commits them to ensure that customers are well informed about branch closures, the bank’s reasons for closure and options for continued access to banking services.</p><p /><p>Guidance from the Financial Conduct Authority also sets out its expectation of firms when they are deciding to reduce their physical branches or the number of free-to-use ATMs. Firms are expected to carefully consider the impact of planned branch closures on their customers’ everyday banking and cash access needs and consider possible alternative access arrangements. This ensures that the implementation of closure decisions is undertaken in a way that treats customers fairly.</p><p /><p>Alternative options for access can be via telephone banking, through digital means such as mobile or online banking, and the Post Office. The Post Office Banking Framework allows 99% of personal banking and 95% of business banking customers to deposit cheques, check their balance and withdraw and deposit cash at 11,500 Post Office branches in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 25/04/2022 13:16:49 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1455876

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cash Dispensing: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to mitigate the effects of the declining number of free-to-use ATMs in Birmingham.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	150076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that cash is an important part of daily life for millions of people across the UK, and remains committed to legislating to protect access to cash.</p><p> </p><p>From 1 July to 23 September last year, the Government held the Access to Cash Consultation on proposals for new laws to make sure people only need to travel a reasonable distance to pay in or take out cash. The Government’s proposals intend to support the continued use of cash in people’s daily lives and help to enable local businesses to continue accepting cash by ensuring they can access deposit facilities.</p><p> </p><p>The Government received responses to the consultation from a broad range of respondents, including individuals, businesses, and charities. The Government has carefully considered responses to the consultation and will set out next steps in due course.</p><p> </p><p>LINK (the scheme that runs the UK's largest ATM network) has commitments to protect the broad geographic spread of free-to-use ATMs and is held to account against these commitments by the Payment Systems Regulator. LINK has committed to protect free-to-use ATMs more than one kilometre away from the next nearest free ATM or Post Office, and free access to cash on high streets (where there is a cluster of five or more retailers) that do not have a free-to-use ATM or a Post Office counter within one kilometre.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, following the Government’s commitment to legislate, firms are working together through the Cash Action Group to develop new initiatives to provide shared services. The Government welcomes the direction set by industry’s commitments at the end of last year and looks forward to seeing what results they deliver in protecting cash facilities for local communities across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 25/04/2022 13:18:35 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1455919

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cost of Living: Low Incomes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will undertake a monthly impact assessment of the implications for low income households of cost of living rises.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	150217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government understands the pressures people, in particular those on low incomes are facing with the cost of living because of high inflation. We are listening to people’s concerns and are providing significant support for the cost of living, worth over £22bn in 22/23. This has included reducing the Universal Credit (UC) taper rate from 63% to 55%, and increased UC work allowances by £500 p.a. to make work pay. In the recent Spring Statement 2022, the Government also announced an increase to the annual National insurance Primary Threshold and Lower Profits Limit to £12,570, and an additional £500m to help those most in need with the cost of essentials through the Household Support Fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At each fiscal event HM Treasury has regularly published distributional analysis of the impact of tax, welfare and spending decisions on households. Distributional analysis published at Spring Statement 2022 shows that in 2024-25, the tax, welfare and spending decisions made since Spending Round 2019 will have benefitted the poorest households most (as a percentage of income).</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 19/04/2022 16:47:44 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1455920

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Health and Social Care Levy: Off-payroll Working and Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Health and Social Care Levy on the earnings of (a) freelance and (b) other off-payroll workers.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	150194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government has made several assessments of the overall impact of the introduction of the Health and Social Care Levy, including in the Tax Information and Impact Note for the measure which was published on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2022, all eligible employees and self-employed individuals will pay the 1.25 percentage point increase in National Insurance contributions (NICs), and the Health and Social Care Levy from April 2023. This includes eligible freelancers and off-payroll workers.</p><p> </p><p>Off-payroll workers who fall inside the off-payroll working rules as deemed employees, and their deemed employers, are included in the scope of the Levy, as the Levy applies wherever there is a Class 1 NICs liability. It will be the responsibility of the deemed employer to pay the employer Levy contribution and deduct the employee Levy contribution.</p><p> </p><p>The increase to the NICs Primary Threshold/Lower Profits Limit announced at the Spring Statement 2022 means that, from July, around 70 per cent of NICs payers will be better off, even when taking the Levy into account.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/04/2022 16:35:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1455960

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Finance: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what impact assessment was made of the potential effect of measures included in the Spring Statement 2022 on the South West Region of England.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	150152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>The Chancellor’s Spring Statement on 23 March 2022 announced a number of measures to support households and businesses in every region and nation of the UK and to relieve the immediate pressure on the cost of living. This includes cutting National Insurance by aligning the Primary Threshold and Lower Profits Limit with the income tax personal allowance from July 2022 – a tax cut worth over £6 billion – and cutting the duty rate on petrol and diesel by 5p per litre for a year, saving the average UK car driver around £100.</p><p> </p><p>It sets out that taxes are being cut, debt is falling and public spending is increasing, for the benefit of every region and nation in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 150153 150154 150155 151087 151088 question first answered 20/04/2022 07:15:07 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1455963

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Finance: South East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an impact assessment of the potential effect of measures included in the Spring Statement 2022 on the South East.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	150153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>The Chancellor’s Spring Statement on 23 March 2022 announced a number of measures to support households and businesses in every region and nation of the UK and to relieve the immediate pressure on the cost of living. This includes cutting National Insurance by aligning the Primary Threshold and Lower Profits Limit with the income tax personal allowance from July 2022 – a tax cut worth over £6 billion – and cutting the duty rate on petrol and diesel by 5p per litre for a year, saving the average UK car driver around £100.</p><p> </p><p>It sets out that taxes are being cut, debt is falling and public spending is increasing, for the benefit of every region and nation in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 150152 150154 150155 151087 151088 question first answered 20/04/2022 07:15:07 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy