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1691200

registered interest
date	22/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Buildings: VAT
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 with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the level of VAT applied to (a) building refurbishment and renovations and (b) new build projects on resource efficiency in the construction sector.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	15252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The construction of certain new-build properties, including residential buildings, is subject to a VAT zero rate to encourage the construction of new homes. A reduced rate of VAT at five per cent is also maintained, subject to certain conditions, for residential renovations. This includes conversions of buildings from one residential use to another, conversions from commercial to residential use, and the renovation of properties that have been empty for two years or more.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 27/02/2024 16:39:53 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1674337

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Policy Committee
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 Energy Security and Net Zero on Remit and Recommendations of the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	4638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>HM Treasury ministers have regular discussions with their colleagues across Government on climate change, including on the implementation of the Green Finance Strategy. The breadth of work the Government is doing through the Strategy will reinforce the UK’s status as a leading centre for green finance.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer is responsible for setting the Remit for the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) once per year, and may also make recommendations regarding matters the FPC should consider as relevant to its primary financial stability objective and its secondary objective to support the Government’s economic policy.</p><p> </p><p>The FPC's remit is an important accountability mechanism to ensure the Committee has a clear framework through which it can make policy decisions and consider any trade-offs. This is important given the complexity of the FPC’s work.</p><p> </p><p>Yearly updates to the Remit ensure that it reflects the current economic context, the Government’s policy, as well as the FPC’s responsibilities and powers. Climate change is an important part of the FPC's remit: both due to the relevance of climate related risks to the Committee’s primary financial stability objective, and because increasing long-term energy security and delivering Net Zero are included as key parts of the Government’s economic policy and are therefore relevant to its secondary objective.</p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami grouped question UIN 4639 question first answered 05/12/2023 16:28:16 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1674338

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Monetary Policy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his letters to the Governor of the Bank of England on the Remit and Recommendations for the Financial Policy Committee of 17 November 2022 and 22 November 2023, for what reason the bullet point on climate change and energy security in part C ii of the 2022 Remit and Recommendations is not present in that part of the 2023 Remit and Recommendations.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	4639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>HM Treasury ministers have regular discussions with their colleagues across Government on climate change, including on the implementation of the Green Finance Strategy. The breadth of work the Government is doing through the Strategy will reinforce the UK’s status as a leading centre for green finance.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer is responsible for setting the Remit for the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) once per year, and may also make recommendations regarding matters the FPC should consider as relevant to its primary financial stability objective and its secondary objective to support the Government’s economic policy.</p><p> </p><p>The FPC's remit is an important accountability mechanism to ensure the Committee has a clear framework through which it can make policy decisions and consider any trade-offs. This is important given the complexity of the FPC’s work.</p><p> </p><p>Yearly updates to the Remit ensure that it reflects the current economic context, the Government’s policy, as well as the FPC’s responsibilities and powers. Climate change is an important part of the FPC's remit: both due to the relevance of climate related risks to the Committee’s primary financial stability objective, and because increasing long-term energy security and delivering Net Zero are included as key parts of the Government’s economic policy and are therefore relevant to its secondary objective.</p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami grouped question UIN 4638 question first answered 05/12/2023 16:28:16 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1668395

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Green Finance Strategy, when the Government plans to publish the consultation on introducing a Green Taxonomy for the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>The 2023 Green Finance Strategy set out the Government’s commitment to deliver a UK Green Taxonomy to support an increase in financing for activities supporting the transition to net zero and delivering on UK environmental objectives. It also announced that we expect to consult on the Taxonomy in Autumn 2023.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 13/11/2023 13:53:39 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1657840

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment has he made of the potential impact of the level of landfill tax on the (a) amount and (b) proportion of waste sent to landfill.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	197376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget 2021 and Spring Budget 2023 the government pre-announced Landfill Tax rates would increase in line with RPI inflation, from April 2023 and April 2024 respectively. Pre-announcing Landfill Tax rates provides businesses with greater certainty and supports investment in more sustainable alternatives to landfill.</p><p> </p><p>To calculate Landfill Tax rates applicable from April 2023, the government used a forecast of RPI for the period 2023Q2 to 2024Q2, provided by the OBR. The same methodology was used to calculate Landfill Tax rates applicable from April 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Landfill Tax works hand in hand with a wider package of measures set out in the 2018 Resources and Waste Strategy for England which are designed to encourage waste to be managed more sustainably. Since 2000, local authority waste sent to landfill in England has fallen by 90%.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies grouped question UIN 197377 197378 question first answered 07/09/2023 14:17:51 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1657841

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the announcement in the Autumn Budget 2021 that Landfill Tax would increase in 2023 and 2024 in line with RPI, what level of RPI was used to determine the increase in Landfill Tax in 2023; and if he will make an assessment of the impact on Landfill Tax revenues if the tax rate had been uprated in line with current RPI.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	197377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget 2021 and Spring Budget 2023 the government pre-announced Landfill Tax rates would increase in line with RPI inflation, from April 2023 and April 2024 respectively. Pre-announcing Landfill Tax rates provides businesses with greater certainty and supports investment in more sustainable alternatives to landfill.</p><p> </p><p>To calculate Landfill Tax rates applicable from April 2023, the government used a forecast of RPI for the period 2023Q2 to 2024Q2, provided by the OBR. The same methodology was used to calculate Landfill Tax rates applicable from April 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Landfill Tax works hand in hand with a wider package of measures set out in the 2018 Resources and Waste Strategy for England which are designed to encourage waste to be managed more sustainably. Since 2000, local authority waste sent to landfill in England has fallen by 90%.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies grouped question UIN 197376 197378 question first answered 07/09/2023 14:17:51 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1657842

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Landfill Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Annex A of the Spring Budget 2023: Overview of Tax Legislation and Rates, published on 15 March 2023, what measure of RPI was used to set the Landfill Tax rate from 1 April 2024; and on what evidential basis this level of RPI was chosen.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	197378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget 2021 and Spring Budget 2023 the government pre-announced Landfill Tax rates would increase in line with RPI inflation, from April 2023 and April 2024 respectively. Pre-announcing Landfill Tax rates provides businesses with greater certainty and supports investment in more sustainable alternatives to landfill.</p><p> </p><p>To calculate Landfill Tax rates applicable from April 2023, the government used a forecast of RPI for the period 2023Q2 to 2024Q2, provided by the OBR. The same methodology was used to calculate Landfill Tax rates applicable from April 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Landfill Tax works hand in hand with a wider package of measures set out in the 2018 Resources and Waste Strategy for England which are designed to encourage waste to be managed more sustainably. Since 2000, local authority waste sent to landfill in England has fallen by 90%.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies grouped question UIN 197376 197377 question first answered 07/09/2023 14:17:51 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1658024

registered interest
date	29/08/2023
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, what recent steps he has taken to ensure fairness in the operation of the tax system.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	906215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2023 answer text <p>It is right that everyone contributes to sustainable public finances and the government is ensuring those with the broadest shoulders pay their fair share.</p><p> </p><p>Spring Budget took steps to tackle non-compliance and improve HMRC’s ability to collect tax debts.</p><p> </p><p>Because of our commitment over 13 years to help the lowest earners, people can now earn over £1000 a month free from income tax or National Insurance.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 906214 906217 question first answered 05/09/2023 16:55:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1653884

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Environment Protection: Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the £30 billion of domestic investment for the green industrial revolution announced at the Spending Review 2021 has been allocated as of 18 July 2023; what the planned allocation is in each year; and on what measures funding (a) has been and (b) is planned to be spent.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	194693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government allocated investment in line with the Net Zero Strategy (2021). The planned allocation for this investment by sub-sector and for each year of the Spending Review is provided in Table 2.5 in the Spending Review 2021 document, available at the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-budget-and-spending-review-2021-documents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-budget-and-spending-review-2021-documents</a></p><p> </p><p>Departments are responsible for reporting on their expenditure and do so in their Annual Reports and Accounts at the end of the relevant financial year.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 04/09/2023 11:48:53 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1420857

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Common Framework for Debt Treatments beyond the DSSI
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2022 to Question 116890, on Climate Change: Developing Countries, how many of the 73 low income countries eligible for the Common Framework for Debt Treatment are Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	120680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>To support low-income countries to tackle their debt vulnerabilities, in November 2020 the UK, alongside our G20 and Paris Club partners, agreed a new Common Framework for Debt Treatment beyond the Debt Service Suspension Initiative. This brings together, for the first time, G20 and Paris Club creditors to coordinate debt treatments following a request from any of the 73 eligible low-income countries. Private sector creditors will be expected to implement debt treatments on at least as favourable terms as those agreed by official creditors.<strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Of the 73 low-income countries that are eligible for the Common Framework, 22 are Small Island Developing States.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 21/02/2022 09:10:29 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy